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§ 26-2-306. Exemption Inapplicable in Certain Cases

The homestead shall not be exempt from sale for the payment of public taxes legally assessed upon it, or from sale for the satisfaction of any debt or liability contracted for its purchase or legally incurred for improvements made thereon. It shall be exempt from seizure in criminal as well as in civil cases, but […]

§ 26-2-307. Right of Selection

Each individual who is entitled to a homestead exemption shall have the right to elect where the homestead shall be set apart.

§ 26-2-308. Procedure to Set Apart

Whenever real property of an individual who is entitled to a homestead exemption thereon is levied on by execution or attachment, the individual’s homestead shall be set apart in the following manner: The officer executing the writs shall summon three (3) disinterested freeholders, not connected with the parties, and administer to them an oath to […]

§ 26-2-309. Sale and Reinvestment of Exempt Proceeds

When the real estate levied on is of greater value than five thousand dollars ($5,000), and is so situated that it cannot be divided so as to set apart the homestead, the freeholders shall certify the fact, and the officer may proceed to sell the whole tract, and out of the proceeds the officer shall […]

§ 26-2-310. Registration of Freeholder’s Certificate

The officer shall certify upon the certificate of the freeholders that the same is their act and deed, and the debtor shall have the same registered in the register’s office of the county in which the lands lie, and, when so registered, it shall vest in the individual entitled to such homestead exemption, as herein […]

§ 26-2-311. Setting Apart for Deserted Family

When a debtor absconds or abandons the debtor’s family, the homestead shall be set apart for the use of the spouse and family, and shall be exempt in the hands of the spouse or children; and such property, on the death of the owner, shall be exempt in the hands of the surviving spouse and […]

§ 26-2-401. Applicability

This part shall apply to executions and garnishments in aid of execution in supplement to other applicable provisions of law; provided, that the contents of the Notice to Judgment Debtor required in connection with a wage garnishment shall be governed by § 26-2-216.

§ 26-2-224. Time for Execution When Multiple Writs Exist

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule to the contrary, a writ of garnishment that is filed later in time than another such writ, and which deducts the maximum amount allowable by law from the debtor’s wages, shall not run concurrently with the earlier filed writ with regard to the six-month time limit prescribed […]