New Jersey Statutes 2A:17-50. Order to issue wage execution; application; jurisdiction
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 2A:17-50
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
2A:17-50. a. When a judgment has been recovered in the Superior Court, and where any wages, debts, earnings, salary, income from trust funds, or profits are due and owing to the judgment debtor, or thereafter become due and owing to him, to the amount of $48.00 or more a week, the judgment creditor may, on notice to the judgment debtor unless the court otherwise orders, apply to the court in which the judgment was recovered, or to the court having jurisdiction of the same, and upon satisfactory proofs, by affidavit or otherwise, of such facts, the court shall grant an order directing that an execution issue against the wages, debts, earnings, salary, income from trust funds, or profits of the judgment debtor.
b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. or any other law to the contrary, when a wage execution application is filed by the State arising out of a determination by a State department or agency that a person owes the department or agency a debt as defined in section 1 of P.L.2005, c.124 (C. 2A:16-11.1), such application may be filed with the Office of Administrative Law rather than with the Superior Court.
L.1951 (1st SS), c.344; amended 1969, c.92, s.1; 1991, c.91, s.42; 2005, c.124, s.7.