Section 15-302 - Requisites of assignment. - Maryland Statutes

§ 15-302. Requisites of assignment.
 

(a)  In general.- An assignment of wages is not valid unless: 

(1) The assignment is: 

(i) In writing; 

(ii) Signed and acknowledged by the assignor before a notary public in and for the county where he resides; and 

(iii) Entered the same day on the docket of the court by the clerk; and 

(2) Within three days from the execution and acknowledgment of the assignment, a copy of the assignment with the certificate of acknowledgment is served on the assignor's employer in the same manner as the Maryland Rules provide for service of a summons. 

(b)  Assignment by a married assignor.- An assignment of wages by a married person is not valid unless also executed and acknowledged by the assignor's spouse in the manner required by subsection (a) of this section. 

(c)  Certain assignments void.- An assignment of wages to be earned in whole or in part more than six months after the making of the assignment is void. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 8, §§ 6, 11; 1975, ch. 49, § 3.]