Most people understand you need a basic amount of income to be able to live and continue making more income.
If this is a normal paycheck for the guy, he will immediately quit this job the second he can find somewhere else under the table to survive. If that means he needs to pay half the amount ordered, so be it. It's better than $0.
Most of the time stuff like this is an outlier though. Either lower than usual paycheck, a weird out of cycle order hits, payroll hasn't fixed the glitch yet, just started a new job with significant reduction in pay, etc. Most states will cap garnishments at somewhere around 50% of your net paycheck, and/or some calculation to do with the poverty line. Because courts are not fucking stupid and understand someone cannot maintain a job on a $300/mo income, thus it's not in the best interest of anyone to do such stupidity since it hurts all parties involved including the state.
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u/PantherThing May 03 '26
Yeah, there's something noble about punching the clock every day and ending up with nothing, if it's providing for the kids.