(a) In civil cases in circuit court and district court there shall be collected a fee for the initiation of each of the following postjudgment proceedings: Attachment, garnishment, and execution. The fee for such proceeding shall be paid at the time the proceeding is initiated.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 12-19-75

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • circuit: means judicial circuit. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The amounts of the postjudgment fees shall be as follows:

(1) Twenty-eight dollars ($28) for attachment;
(2) Twenty-eight dollars ($28) for garnishment; and
(3) Twenty-eight dollars ($28) for execution.
(c) The postjudgment fees collected in civil cases shall be distributed as follows:

(1) Twenty-two dollars seventy-five cents ($22.75) of the attachment fee to the State General Fund, ten dollars seventy-five cents ($10.75) of which shall be for judicial and public safety functions; five dollars twenty-five cents ($5.25) of the attachment fee to the county general fund.
(2) Twenty-two dollars seventy-five cents ($22.75) of the garnishment fee to the State General Fund, ten dollars seventy-five cents ($10.75) of which shall be for judicial and public safety functions; five dollars twenty-five cents ($5.25) of the garnishment fee to the county general fund.
(3) Twenty-one dollars forty cents ($21.40) of the execution fee to the State General Fund, sixteen dollars forty cents ($16.40) of which shall be for judicial and public safety functions; six dollars sixty cents ($6.60) of the execution fee to the county general fund.
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