§46A-2-116 Assignment of earnings. - West Virginia Statutes

§46A-2-116. Assignment of earnings.
(1) The maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek which may be subjected to any one or more assignments of earnings for the payment of a debt or debts arising from one or more consumer credit sales, consumer leases or consumer loans, or one or more sales as defined in section one hundred two, article six of this chapter, may not exceed twenty-five percent of his disposable earnings for that week.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Disposable earnings" means that part of the earnings of an individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of amounts required by law to be withheld; and

(b) "Assignment of earnings" includes all forms of assignments, deductions, transfers, or sales of earnings to another, either as payment or as security, and whether stated to be revocable or nonrevocable, and includes any deductions authorized under the provisions of section three, article five, chapter twenty-one of this code, except deductions for union or club dues, pension plans, payroll savings plans, charities, stock purchase plans and hospitalization and medical insurance.

(3) Any assignment of earnings and any deduction under said section three, article five, chapter twenty-one of this code shall be revocable by the employee at will at any time, notwithstandingany provision to the contrary.

(4) The priority of multiple assignments of earnings shall be according to the date and time of each such assignment.