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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 525.010 (2026)

Who may be summoned as garnishees

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  525.010.  Who may be summoned as garnishees. — All persons shall be subject to garnishment, on attachment or execution, who are named as garnishees in the writ, or have in their possession goods, moneys or effects of the defendant not actually seized by the officer, and all debtors of the defendant, and such others as the plaintiff or his attorney shall direct to be summoned as garnishees.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1560)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1396; 1919 § 1846; 1909 § 2413

CROSS REFERENCES:

Director of the department of commerce and insurance not subject to garnishment in respect to deposits of securities, 375.460

Indemnity insurance on account of bodily injury or death, reached by creditors, how, 379.200

(1955) When execution is quashed, garnishment writ or summons issued in aid thereof ceases to be a live and subsisting process. Flynn v. Janssen (Mo.), 284 S.W.2d 421.

(1959) Garnishment proceeding in aid of execution under federal statute is a civil action under federal statutes providing for removal of civil actions to the federal court. Randolph v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. of Wis., 260 F.2d 461.

(1959) Where Kansas judgment was filed with "petition on foreign judgment" after the death of the judgment debtor, it would not support a garnishment on a bank in this state because the judgment would not sustain an execution in Kansas.  Barnes v. Hilton (A.), 323 S.W.2d 831.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 31 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1953–2022 · leading case: State ex rel. Koster v. Cain, 383 S.W.3d 105 (Mo. Ct. App. 2012).
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State ex rel. Koster v. Cain, 383 S.W.3d 105 (Mo. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 8× “Section 525.010 provides: All persons shall be subject to garnishment, on attachment or execution, who are named as garnishees in the writ, or have in their possession goods, moneys or effects of the defendant not actually seized by the officer, and all debtors of the defendant,…”
Anani v. Griep, 406 S.W.3d 479 (Mo. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 8× “Once summoned by a writ of garnishment, a garnishee must withhold “any wages in excess of the amounts prescribed in subsection 2 of section 525.”
Baisch & Skinner, Inc. v. Jeffrey G. Bair d/b/a Grimm & Gorley, d/b/a J. Sent, Inc., & First Bank, 507 S.W.3d 627 (Mo. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 5× “1970) (citing § 525.010 RSMo 1959). A garnishment is a statutory remedy which enables a judgment creditor (the garnishor) to collect the amount of the judgment by seizing the judgment debtor’s property when it is in the hands of a third party (the garnishee).”
Owens v. Gov't Employees Ins. Co., 643 S.W.2d 308 (Mo. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 3× “Section 525.010, RSMo 1978 provides: All persons shall be subject to garnishment, on attachment or execution, who are named as garnishees in the writ, or have in their possession goods, moneys or effects of the defendant not actually seized by the officer, and all debtors of the…”
Baird v. Baird, 843 S.W.2d 388 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “Property awarded a spouse pursuant to a division of marital property enjoys no special exemption from attachment or execution.”
State Ex Rel. Gov't Employees Ins. Co. v. Lasky, 454 S.W.2d 942 (Mo. Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 3× “Section 525.010, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., provides: “All persons shall be subject to garnishment, on attachment or execution, who are named as garnishees in the writ, or have in their possession goods, moneys or effects of the defendant not actually seized by the officer, and all…”
Brock v. City of St. Louis, 724 S.W.2d 721 (Mo. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 3× “Section 525.010 RSMo.1978 and Rule 87.02(a) authorizes “any person interested” in an ordinance to have a circuit court determine and declare “rights, status or other legal relations.”
In Re Smith, 124 B.R. 787 (Bankr. W.D. Mo. 1991). · cites it 4× “030, a bonus may qualify as earnings, and therefore enjoys exemption protection from garnishment in aid of attachment or execution sought under Mo. Rev.Stat. § 525.010. Mo.Rev.Stat. § 513.”
Grissum v. Soldi, 108 S.W.3d 805 (Mo. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 2× “040 provides that "[n]otice of garnishment, served as provided in sections 525.010 to 525.480 shall have the effect of attaching all personal property, money .”
Beatty v. Conner, 923 S.W.2d 455 (Mo. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “Respondent was subject to garnishment pursuant to § 525.010, RSMo 1994, because *457 it was named as garnishee in the writ.”
Farrington v. O'Reilly Auto. Inc. (In Re TMIC Indus. Cleaning Co.), 19 B.R. 397 (Bankr. W.D. Mo. 1982). · cites it 2× “” Section 525.010, R.S. Mo. 1969. Section 525.”
Melissa Lancaster Tim Lancaster v. Am. & Foreign Ins. Co. Royal Ins. Co. of Am. Royal Surplus Line Ins. Co., 272 F.3d 1059 (8th Cir. 2001). “who are named as garnishees in the writ, or have in their possession goods, moneys, or effects of the defendant not actually seized by the officer, and all debtors of the defendant Mo.Rev.Stat. § 525.010. Missouri’s rules of procedure further define “property subject to…”
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