New Mexico Statutes Chapter 35. Magistrate and Municipal Courts § 35-12-18. Garnishment; form of writ

1. What, if anything, are you indebted to the defendant in this action and on what account?

2. What, if any, personal property of the defendant is in your possession or under your control?

3. What other persons, if any, within your knowledge are indebted to the defendant or have personal property of the defendant in their possession?

Service of this writ upon you has the effect of attaching all nonexempt personal property, money, rights, credits, bonds, bills, notes, drafts and other choses in action of the defendant in your possession or under your control at the time of service and that may come into your possession or under your control or be owing by you between the time of service and the time of making your answer.

This writ was issued in (advance) (aid of execution) of judgment against the defendant. If this writ was issued in advance of judgment, it does not attach any wages or salary due from you to the defendant. If this writ was issued in aid of execution of judgment, it attaches wages or salary due from you to the defendant in excess of the greater of the following portions of the defendant's disposable earnings:

FINANCIAL INSTITUTION WRITS

If you are a financial institution, the defendant who is an individual or sole proprietor has an exemption totaling two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) in depository and investment accounts. This writ attaches only to money in excess of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400). You may rely on the representations of the person executing this writ as to whether the exemption amount has already been satisfied with other accounts held by other financial institutions. This provision shall not prevent the individual or sole proprietor from claiming that additional money in depository or investment accounts is exempt under any other available exemption provided by law.

Any wages you owe the employee in excess of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) or that you may come to owe the employee in excess of that amount must be kept by you until further order of this court. This means that you shall not pay the non-exempt amounts to the plaintiff until further order from this court requiring payment.

It is unlawful to pay or deliver to the defendant any item attached by this writ. If you fail to appear and answer as directed, or if you unlawfully dispose of any item attached by this writ, judgment may be rendered against you for the full amount of the plaintiff's claim against the defendant in this action.

Dated __________, 20 __________ Magistrate”.