Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 653 · 17 active provisions
Any officer or employee, or other person in the service of the government of the State, or of any political or municipal subdivision thereof, or in receipt of, or entitled to a salary, stipend, or wages, from the State, or any department, board, or bureau thereof, or from any political or municipal subdivision of the S…
The salary, stipend, or wages of the beneficiary may be attached for, and applied in the payment of the beneficiary's debts, in the manner prescribed in this chapter.
No pension to which any person is entitled from the State, or any municipal subdivision thereof, shall be subject to taxes nor to garnishment, attachment, or execution upon or in any suit, action, or proceeding at law instituted by any person or by the State or by any municipal subdivision thereof.
The wages received by every person receiving less than $60 per month when paid from any unemployment work relief fund, the expenditure of which is under the control of any state commission, board, or other agency, or under the control of any county or any commission, board, or other agency of any county shall be exempt…
The creditor of such beneficiary may bring the creditor's action against the creditor's debtor, and in the creditor's complaint allege, to the best of the creditor's knowledge: (1) The office or employment held or pursued by the beneficiary, in or under what department, board, or bureau of government or subdivision of…
(a) Any provision to the contrary notwithstanding, no garnishee summons shall be issued before judgment until the creditor upon motion and after hearing has proved to the satisfaction of the court any of the following allegations: (1) That the defendant debtor is not a resident of the State and may depart from the Stat…
Service of the copy upon the garnishee may be made in any of the manners here described, namely: (1) If the garnishee lives or has an office in the district in which process is issued, by the officer's handing a copy to the garnishee in person or leaving it in the garnishee's office in charge of some deputy or clerk or…
(a) In case of service upon the garnishee, the serving officer's certificate of service or, if by mail, a copy of the return receipt shall be prima facie proof of the service. (b) For purposes of this chapter, service is effective from the time when the copy is handed to, or left in the office of the garnishee, or reac…
Service of process upon the beneficiary may be made as has been usual or shall be provided in the case of civil actions in general.
The obligations and inhibitions imposed upon the garnishee shall be equally binding upon the garnishee's official superiors and successors, to whose notice the fact shall come, of the service upon the garnishee.
It shall not be incumbent upon the garnishee to appear in any court or file any answer to the process, but the trial of the action may proceed, in all respects, as though the garnishee had not been included in the action. But from the time of the service of the copy on the garnishee, the garnishee shall withhold from t…
After trial or hearing of the action, either in the original or any appellate court, the party prevailing in the trial or hearing shall obtain from the court in or before which the trial or hearing was had, a certificate, which shall sufficiently describe the action to apprise the garnishee of its identity, and shall s…
In case of the withdrawal or discontinuance of the action, or of the rendition of judgment therein wholly favorable to the beneficiary, from or to which judgment no appeal or exceptions have been noted at the time when it was rendered, and the certification thereof to the garnishee, the inhibitions placed upon the garn…
In case there is certified to the garnishee a judgment for the plaintiff, from or to which no appeal or exception, at the time of its rendition, has been noted, it shall be incumbent upon the garnishee to draw, sign, and deliver to the plaintiff a warrant or warrants payable to the order of the plaintiff for such sum o…
In case of successive actions being brought against any beneficiary, in which any portion of the beneficiary's salary, stipend, or wages is sought to be sequestered, as provided herein, precedence shall be given by the garnishee to one whose process is first served upon the garnishee; and if two or more such processes…
The order of precedence established by section 653-15 shall not be disturbed by the fact of a later action being carried to final judgment sooner than the earlier in point of such service upon the garnishee, but in such case the garnishee shall pay or cause to be paid on account of the earlier judgment only such sums a…
All warrants drawn and delivered on account of any judgment, as hereinbefore provided, shall be noted and charged against the beneficiary in like manner as if they had been drawn and delivered to the beneficiary personally on account of such salary, stipend, wages, or annuity.