Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-6-482 (2026)
Writ to Issue Only After Final Judgments on Actions Ex Contractu.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The salary referred to in this division is not subject to a writ of garnishment in aid of a pending action, but such writ may issue only after final judgment, on which execution can issue, entered in actions on contracts or growing out of contracts express or implied and being judgments ex contractu. The judgment on which such writ can issue must be founded upon a debt, demand, or claim against said defendant which originated subsequent to September 26, 1923. The salary referred to in this division is not subject to writ of garnishment issued on judgments ex delicto.
(Acts 1923, No. 427, p. 575; Code 1923, §8091; Code 1940, T. 7, §1035.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1979–2016 · leading case: St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Nowlin, 542 So. 2d 1190 (Ala. 1989).
St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Nowlin, 542 So. 2d 1190 (Ala. 1989). “App.1982) (allowing the writ of garnishment against a governmental employee on ex contractu judgment and upholding exemption from garnishment on ex delicto judgment, as provided in Ala.”
Druid City Hosp. Bd. v. Epperson, 378 So. 2d 696 (Ala. 1979). “We turn now to appellees' contention that a state official named as garnishee can refuse to consent to the garnishment for any reason pursuant to Code 1975, § 6-6-483, which provides: "Where an official of the state of Alabama or other person designated in this division has been…”
ENT Assocs. of Alabama, P.A. v. Hoke, 223 So. 3d 209 (Ala. 2016). “Furthermore, they argued that because the two-year statute of limitations that applied to Hoke’s medical-malpractice action had expired, see § 6-6-482, Ala. Code 1976, the case was due to be dismissed in its entirety with prejudice.”
Oladeinde v. City of Birmingham, 118 F. Supp. 2d 1200 (N.D. Ala. 1999). “In other words, how to collect the judgments follows the avenues provided by Alabama law. Ala *1208 bama does not allow the garnishment of pension benefits or public salaries as a procedure to satisfy a judgment, so the above-referenced garnishments were properly quashed.”
McGrady v. McGrady, 536 So. 2d 94 (Ala. Civ. App. 1988). “” The garnishment is limited by § 6-6-482 in the following manner: "The salary referred to in this division is not subject to a writ of garnishment in aid of a pending action, but such writ may issue only after final judgment, on which execution can issue, entered in actions on…”
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