Notice Of Court Proceedings To Collect Debt (Municipal)

NOTICE OF COURT PROCEEDINGS TO COLLECT DEBT (OHIO REVISED CODE 2716.02 EFF. 8/29/00) THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR TO___________________________________________________________ Name of the Judgment Debtor Date of mailing or date of service by the court___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ (Last known residence address of the Judgment Debtor You owe the undersigned____________________________________________________________________________ $_____________________, Name of the Judgment Creditor Including interest and court costs, for which a judgment was obtained against you or certified in the _______________________________________ Court on ____________________________, payment of which is hereby demanded. If you do not do one of the three things listed below within fifteen days of the date of the mailing of this notice or of its service by the court, we will go to court, unless we are otherwise precluded by law from doing so, and ask that your employer be ordered to withhold money from your earnings until the judgment has been paid in full, or if applicable, is paid to a certain extent and to pay the withheld money to the court in satisfaction of your debt. This is called garnishment of personal earnings. It is to your advantage to avoid garnishment of personal earnings because the placing of the extra burden on your employer possibly could cause you to lose your job. YOU CAN AVOID THE GARNISHMENT BY DOING ONE OF THESE THREE THINGS WITHIN THE FIFTEEN-DAY PERIOD: (1) Pay to us the amount due; (2) Complete the attached form entitled "Payment to Avoid Garnishment" and return it to us with the payment, if any, shown due on it; or (3) Apply to your local municipal or county court or, if you are not a resident of Ohio, to the municipal or county court in whose jurisdiction your place of employment is located, for the appointment of a trustee to receive the part of your earnings that is not exempt from garnishment, and notify us that you have applied for the appointment of a trustee. You will be required to list your creditors, the amounts of their claims, and the amounts due on their claims, and the amount you then will pay to your trustee each payday will be divided among them until the debts are paid off. This can be to your advantage because in the meantime none of those creditors can garnish your wages. You also may contact a budget and debt counseling service described in division (D) of section 2716.03 of the Ohio Revised Code for the purpose of entering into an agreement for debt scheduling. There may not be enough time to set up an agreement for debt scheduling in order to avoid a garnishment of your wages based upon this demand for payment, but entering into an agreement for debt scheduling might protect you from future garnishments of your wages. Under an agreement for debt scheduling, you will have to regularly pay a portion of your income to the service until the debts subject to the agreement are paid off. This portion of your income will be paid by the service to your creditors who are owed debts subject to the agreement. This can be to your advantage because these creditors cannot garnish your wages while you make your payments to the service on time. _______________________________________________________ Name of Judgment Creditor/Attorney ___________________________________________________________________________________ Signature of Judgment Creditor/Attorney _______________________________________________________ Address of Judgment Creditor/Attorney ____________________________________________________________________________________ PAYMENT TO AVOID GARNISHMENT TO:____________________________________________________ Name of Judgment Creditor/Attorney _______________________________________________________ Address of Judgment Creditor/Attorney ________________________________________________________ To avoid the garnishment of personal earnings, of which you have given me notice, I enclose $____________to apply toward my indebtedness to you. The amount of the payment was computed as follows: 1. Total amount of indebtedness demanded: (1) $______________________ 2. Enter the amount of your personal earnings, after deductions required by law, earned by you during the current pay period that is, the pay period in which this demand is received by you: (2) $______________________ 3. (A) Enter your pay period (weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly): (3)(A) $______________________ (B) Enter the date when your present pay period ends: (3)(B) ______________________ 4. Enter an amount equal to 25% of the amount on line (2): (4) $______________________ 5. (A) The current federal hourly minimum wage is $__________ (to be filled in by the judgment creditor) (You should use the above figure to complete this portion of the form.) If you are paid weekly, enter thirty times the current federal minimum hourly wage; if paid biweekly, enter sixty times the current federal minimum wage; if paid semimonthly, enter sixty-five times the current federal minimum hourly wage; if paid monthly, enter one hundred thirty times the current federal minimum hourly wage: (5)(A) $_____________________ (B) Enter the amount by which the amount on line (2) exceeds the amount on line 5 (A): (5)(B) $_____________________ 6. Enter the smallest of the amounts on line (1), (4), or 5(B). Send this amount to the judgment creditor along with this form after you have signed it: (6) $_____________________ I certify that the statements contained above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. (To verify that the amount shown on line (2) is a true statement of your earnings, you must either have your employer certify below that the amount shown on line (2) is a true statement of your earnings or you may submit copies of your pay stubs for the two pay periods immediately prior to your receiving this notice) ________________________________________________________ Signature of Judgment Debtor ________________________________________________________ Print Name and Residence Address I certify that the amount shown on line (2) is a true statement of the judgment debtor's earnings. ________________________________________________________ Print Name of Employer ________________________________________________________ Signature of Employer or Agent I certify that I have attached copies of my pay stubs for the two pay periods immediately pri