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HRS §653-14

When the garnishee must give the plaintiff a warrant

If a court has ordered a garnishee to hold money for a plaintiff and the judgment is final, the garnishee must give the plaintiff a warrant for the held money. If the held money is not enough, the garnishee must keep giving warrants from the plaintiff's wages until the judgment is paid or the employment ends.

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The statute, as written — Warrants issued to plaintiff, when

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 or sums as theretofore have been sequestered and not drawn against in pursuance of the action if the judgment equals or exceeds such sum or sums. If the amount so sequestered and not drawn against does not suffice to extinguish the judgment, then the sequestration and delivery to the plaintiff by the garnishee of a warrant payable to the order of the plaintiff shall continue from week to week, or from month to month, until the judgment, with legal interest, is fully paid, or until the beneficiary quits the service of and dissolves the beneficiary's relation to the government upon which the sequestration is founded.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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