<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 21-18-27 - Garnishee's garnishment disclosure liability--Time of filing--Contents. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2046049Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2046049SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2046049CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2046049Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2046049DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2046049Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } p.s2046049Normal-000002 { text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2046049000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2046049SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2046049SCL-000004 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=21-18-27"><span class="s2046049SENU">21-18-27</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046049SENU">. </span><span class="s2046049CL">Garnishee's garnishment disclosure liability--Time of filing--Contents.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">Unless the garnishee makes the affidavit provided for in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=21-18-26"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">21-18-26</span></a><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">, he shall within thirty days from the service of the garnishee summons file and serve in like manner a garnishment disclosure in which he shall state:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000001"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Whether he was at the time of service of the garnishee summons indebted or under any liability to the defendant named in the garnishee summons, in any manner, upon any account, specifying, if indebted or liable, the amount, the interest thereon, the manner in which evidenced, when payable, whether an absolute or contingent liability, and all the facts and circumstances necessary to a complete understanding of such indebtedness or liability. If the garnishee is in doubt respecting any such liability or indebtedness, he may set forth all the facts and circumstances concerning the liability or indebtedness and submit the question to the court;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000001"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Whether he held at the time aforesaid the title or possession of any real estate, or any interest in land of any description, or of any personal property, effects, or credits, or any instruments or papers relating to such, belonging to the defendant or in which he was in any way interested. If he admits any such or is in any doubt respecting the same, he shall set forth the description of such property and all the facts and circumstances concerning the same, and the title, interest, or claim of the defendant in or to the same.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000002"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">If the garnishee claims any setoff or defense to any indebtedness or liability or any lien on or claim to the property, he shall set forth the facts and circumstances thereof fully.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000002"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">The garnishee may state any claim of exemption from execution on the part of the defendant, or other objection known to him against the right of plaintiff to apply upon his demands the indebtedness or property disclosed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal-000002"><span class="s2046049DefaultParagraphFont">If the garnishee discloses any indebtedness, or the possession of any property to which the defendant, and any other person as well, has a claim, he shall provide the names and residences of such claimants and so far as known the nature of their claims.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046049000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046049Normal"><span class="s2046049SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046049SCL-000004"> SDC 1939 &amp; Supp 1960, § 37.2812; SL 1988, ch 182, § 5.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 21-18-27 - Garnishee's garnishment disclosure liability--Time of filing--Contents. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2046050Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2046050SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2046050CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2046050Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; 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The disclosure shall be substantially in the following form:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000002"><span class="s2046050B">State of South Dakota    )             In _______________ Court</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000003"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B"> )    ss.         </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000002"><span class="s2046050B">County of __________    )            __________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000004"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">__________         </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000005"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">Plaintiff                 </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000006"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">vs.                </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000004"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">__________        </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000005"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">Defendant                </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000002"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">and            Garnishment Disclosure    </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000004"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">__________        </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000005"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050B">Garnishee                </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000007"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">I am the ______________ of the garnishee and duly authorized to disclose for the garnishee.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000007"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">On the ______ day of ______________, 20____, the time of service of garnishee summons on the garnishee, there was due and owing the defendant from the garnishee the following:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">1.    Earnings. For the purposes of garnishment, "earnings" means compensation payable for personal service whether called wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise, and includes periodic payments. "Earnings" does not include social security benefits or veterans' disability pension benefits, except when the benefits are subject to garnishment to enforce any order for the support of a dependent child. "Earnings" includes military retirement pay. "Disposable earnings" means that part of the earnings of an individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of amounts required by law to be withheld (such as FICA, Medicare, and income tax withholding). If the garnishee summons was served upon you at a time when earnings from a prior completed pay period were owing but not paid, complete the following disclosure for earnings from both the past pay period and the current pay period.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">a.    Enter on the line below the amount of disposable earnings earned or to be earned by the defendant within the defendant's pay periods which may be subject to garnishment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">b.    Enter on the line below forty times the hourly federal minimum wage (or state minimum wage, if greater) times the number of workweeks within the defendant's pay periods which may be subject to garnishment plus twenty-five dollars per week for each dependent family member residing with the garnishment debtor other than the garnishment debtor himself or herself. When pay periods consist of other than a whole number of workweeks, each day of a pay period in excess of the number of completed workweeks shall be counted as a fraction of a workweek equal to the number of workdays divided by the number of workdays in the normal workweek.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">c.    Enter on the line below the difference obtained (never less than zero) when line b is subtracted from line a.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">d.    Enter on the line below twenty percent (1/5) of line a.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">e.    Enter on the line below the lesser of line c and line d.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000010"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050000001"> </span></p></div><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">2.    Money. Enter on the line below any amounts due and owing defendant, except earnings, from the garnishee. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">3.    Property. Describe on the line below any personal property, instruments or papers belonging to the defendant and in the possession of the garnishee.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">4.    Setoff. Enter on the line below the amount of any setoff, defense, lien or claim which the garnishee claims against the amount set forth on lines 1(e), 2 and 3. Allege the facts by which the setoff, defense, lien or claim is claimed. (Any indebtedness to a garnishee-employer incurred by the judgment debtor within ten days prior to the receipt of the first garnishment on a debt is void and should be disregarded.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">5.    Adverse Interest. Enter on the line below any amounts claimed by other persons by reason of ownership or interest in the defendant's property (such as child support, federal wage garnishments, and other creditor garnishments). State the names and addresses of the persons and the nature of their claim, if known. (Any assignment of wages made by the defendant within ten days prior to the receipt of the first garnishment on a debt is void and should be disregarded.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">6.    Enter on the line below the total of lines 4 and 5.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">7.    Enter on the line below the difference obtained (never less than zero) when line 6 is subtracted from the sum of line 1(e), 2 and 3. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">8.    Enter on the line below one hundred five percent of the amount set forth in the Affidavit of Garnishment. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">___________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000008"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">9.    Enter on the line below the lesser of line 7 and line 8. As garnishee, you are hereby instructed to retain this amount only if it is $25.00 or more. The balance shall be remitted to the debtor in a timely manner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal-000009"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">__________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050SL">Signature ______________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050SL">Authorized Representative of Garnishee</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050SL">______________________________________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050SL">Title</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of ______________, 20____.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">________________________</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050DefaultParagraphFont">Notary Public</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2046050Normal"><span class="s2046050SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2046050SCL-000011"> SL 1988, ch 182, § 6; SL 1991, ch 24, § 7; SL 2016, ch 116, § 10; SL 2018, ch 129, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>