Effective immediately, businesses in Georgia can save themselves the expense of using legal counsel to file routine garnishment answers. The new law, signed by Governor Nathan Deal on February 7, 2012, allows businesses to appoint an “authorized officer or employee†to file such answers and declares that such filing “shall not constitute the practice of law.†This reverses the Georgia Supreme Court’s 2011 decision that held that filing garnishment answers by a non-attorney is the unlicensed practice of law.
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