BROOKSBY v. NEV. STATE BANK

No. 58006.

312 P.3d 501 (2013)

Haley BROOKSBY; Tyson Brooksby; and Trey Brooksby, Appellants, v. NEVADA STATE BANK, A Nevada Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven W. Shaw , Las Vegas, Nevada, for Appellants.

Gordon Silver and Erika A. Pike Turner and Joel Z. Schwarz , Las Vegas, for Respondent.

BEFORE HARDESTY, PARRAGUIRRE and CHERRY, JJ.


OPINION

By the Court, PARRAGUIRRE, J.:

A judgment creditor may garnish only a debtor's funds that are held in a joint bank account, not the funds in the account owned solely by the nondebtor. In post-judgment proceedings below, a judgment creditor garnished the funds in bank accounts held by the judgment debtor jointly with her nondebtor children. The children, claiming that the garnished funds belonged to them alone, objected and petitioned the district...

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