Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-6-481 (2026)
Who May Be Garnished; How Effected.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
(a) Money due officials or employees of a city, county, or state government, or any department or institution thereof, as salary for services performed for or on behalf of said city, county, or state, or any department or institution thereof, may be garnished.
(b) In such cases, the writ of garnishment may be served on the person authorized by law to draw the warrant on the treasury of said government or to issue a check for such salary so due, and such person shall be required to answer said writ in accordance with the mandate thereof and as provided by law.
(Acts 1923, No. 427, p. 575; Code 1923, §§8088, 8089; Code 1940, T. 7, §§1032, 1033.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1988–1988 · leading case: McGrady v. McGrady, 536 So. 2d 94 (Ala. Civ. App. 1988).
McGrady v. McGrady, 536 So. 2d 94 (Ala. Civ. App. 1988). “I Section 6-6-481, Ala.Code (1975), allows garnishment of “[mjoney due officials or employees of a city, county or state government, or any department or institution thereof, as salary for services performed.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.