Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 532.168 — Show cause hearing for failure to comply with criminal garnishment order
532.168. Show cause hearing for failure to comply with criminal garnishment order
If a garnishee fails to comply with the terms of the order of criminal garnishment within thirty (30) days after its issuance, the attorney for the Commonwealth may move the court to order the garnishee to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. If the court finds that the failure was willful or grossly negligent, the court shall find the garnishee in contempt and shall award reasonable attorney's fees and costs, in addition to any contempt sanction it imposes.
Source notes
Effective: July 15, 1998
History and annotations
Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 606, sec. 176, effective July 15, 1998.
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