9.94A.7603 - Legal financial obligations -- Payroll deductions -- Maximum amounts withheld, apportionment. - Washington Statutes

Legal financial obligations — Payroll deductions — Maximum amounts withheld, apportionment.

(1) The total amount to be withheld from the offender/employee's earnings each month, or from each earnings disbursement, shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the disposable earnings of the offender.

     (2) If the offender is subject to two or more notices of payroll deduction for payment of a court-ordered legal financial obligation from different obligees, the employer or entity shall, if the nonexempt portion of the offender's earnings is not sufficient to respond fully to all notices of payroll deduction, apportion the offender's nonexempt disposable earnings between or among the various obligees equally.

[1991 c 93 § 4. Formerly RCW 9.94A.200015.]

Notes: Retroactive application -- Captions not law -- 1991 c 93: See notes following RCW 9.94A.7601.