New Jersey § 2a:17-52
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 2a:17-52, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 2a:17-52.
a. Only one execution against the wages, debts, earnings, salary, income from trust
funds or profits of such judgment debtor shall be satisfied at one time, and where
more than one execution shall be issued pursuant to the provisions of this article
against the same judgment debtor, they shall be satisfied in the order of priority
in which such executions are presented to the person or persons from whom such wages,
debts, earnings, salary, income from trust funds or profits are due and owing, irrespective
of the fact that such executions shall be issued out of different courts; provided,
however, that where more than one such execution shall be presented to any such person
on the same day and one of such executions derives from a court order for suitable
support and maintenance of a wife, child or children it shall be first satisfied,
notwithstanding the prior presentation on the same day of any other such execution. b. Notwithstanding subsection a., any wage execution applications filed by the State
after the effective date of P.L.2005, c. 124, including those arising out of a determination by a State department or agency that
a person owes the department or agency a debt as defined in section 1 of P.L.2005, c. 124 ( C.2A:16-11.1 ), shall have priority over any other wage execution filed on or after the effective
date of this act except as follows: (1) the execution set forth in this subsection shall not have priority over any execution
that derives from a court order for suitable support and maintenance of a wife, child
or children; (2) the execution set forth in this subsection shall not have priority over any execution
otherwise required to have priority pursuant to any other law. 1
L.2005, c. 124, effective July 2, 2005.
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