Homestead Exemption Blogs

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In New York, the law that governs property exempt from the satisfaction of money judgments is CPLR § 5205. Below is a general list of what personal property is exempt from the reach of your creditors. ...

New York statute shields select funds from creditor attachment, even when debt obligations remain unpaid. These legal "exemptions" protect essential income required for basic living needs. Generally, ...

A judgment lien arises when a court rules you owe a debt, allowing the creditor to claim your nonexempt property until the debt is paid.A judgment lien is created after the entry of a judgment. If you ...

Restraining Notices: What Are They & How Do They Work? Under New York CPLR § 5222, once a creditor has gotten a judgment for a debt, it has the right to use something called a "restraining notice" to ...

The Homestead Exemption law in New York, as detailed in § 5206, safeguards a person's primary residence from being used to satisfy a monetary judgment. The government's policy in implementing the ...