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2020 Florida Statutes

SECTION 055
Service of garnishee’s answer and notice of right to dissolve writ.
F.S. 77.055
77.055 Service of garnishee’s answer and notice of right to dissolve writ.Within 5 days after service of the garnishee’s answer on the plaintiff or after the time period for the garnishee’s answer has expired, the plaintiff shall serve, by mail, the following documents: a copy of the garnishee’s answer, and a notice advising the recipient that he or she must move to dissolve the writ of garnishment within 20 days after the date indicated on the certificate of service in the notice if any allegation in the plaintiff’s motion for writ of garnishment is untrue. The plaintiff shall serve these documents on the defendant at the defendant’s last known address and any other address disclosed by the garnishee’s answer and on any other person disclosed in the garnishee’s answer to have any ownership interest in the deposit, account, or property controlled by the garnishee. The plaintiff shall file in the proceeding a certificate of such service.
History.s. 1, ch. 85-272; s. 2, ch. 88-295; s. 386, ch. 95-147; s. 23, ch. 2000-258.