Los Angeles Debt Collection

The Los Angeles Sheriff Office along with any other county like San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Orange County Sheriff Office all have a civil section to perform civil task like serving documents, levying bank accounts, placing keepers, move out keeper, garnishing wages and etc.

The Sheriff office also performs the same task that a attorney service can with regards to serving lawsuits and legal documents like subpoenas.

When it comes to doing bank levies, placing a keeper, wage garnishments, or a move out keeper, the Sheriff needs three things: a writ of execution (a court order giving them the right to execute on someone), instructions, and the requisite sheriff fees for the task at hand. Once those elements are satisfied, the Sheriff will personally served the bank levy instruction on the bank or business for a wage garnishment. They will personally appear at the location for a keeper or a move out keeper.

With a 8 hour keeper, they will place an off duty officer at a business. If a retail business is involved they will literally stand next to the cashier and take all monies coming into the business. With a move out keeper, they will come with a moving company and allow the moving company to seize all the assets of a location.

If a court, government or law firm is levying money from your bank account, do they have to tell you first?

No, they do not. What generally happens is that they will obtain a Writ of Execution from the Court. With the Writ they will have the Sheriff’s office serve levy instructions on your bank. If you bank account exist at the institution that the levy is served upon then the bank will seize an amount that will satisfied the judgment and notify you.

That is the point that you will get notice of the bank levy. The bank then has 10 to 15 days to notify and to send the funds to the sheriff. Doing that time, it is your opportunity to figure out what is happening and ascertain if the bank levy was correct or not.

If they got the right party then the monies will be sent to the Sheriff’s office to send the money to your creditor.