[Question] Garnishee Order

[cindyreuben]

Hi

Scenario:

Owner Franchise Manager has a garnishee against him for maintenance. He instructs the payroll person to ignore the garnishee. Because he is the owner/manager the payroll person ignores the garnishee. What recourse does the lady not receiving maintenance have?

[Justloadit]

It is easier to go for the owner to honour the garnishee order, than trying to go to the maintenance court to get him to pay maintenance.

I am not a lawyer, but I think that ignoring the garneshee order is an offence, and the owner of the business is personally responsible for payment of the garnishee order.

I am sure our leanered friends on this forum will provide better information.

[Dave A]

Eish! You can't get locked up for debt, but you can get locked up for contempt of court.

[Entropy Group]

Hi Cindy, if I were the mother, I would report this franchise holder to the Franchisor. A certain retail group recently received a lot of unfavourable publicity due to the illegal actions of one of their franchise holders and I think the head office would be well aware of this and very sensitive to it.