Sec. 52-350a. Definitions.
Sec. 52-350a. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter and section 49-51, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Conspicuous" means conspicuous as defined in section 42a-1-201.
(2) "Consumer debt or obligation" means a debt or obligation incurred primarily
for personal, family or household purposes.
(3) "Consumer judgment" means a money judgment of less than five thousand dollars against a natural person resulting from any consumer debt or obligation.
(4) "Disposable earnings" means that part of the earnings of an individual remaining
after the deduction from those earnings of amounts required to be withheld for payment
of federal income and employment taxes, normal retirement contributions, union dues
and initiation fees, group life insurance premiums, health insurance premiums, and federal tax levies.
(5) "Earnings" means any debt accruing by reason of personal services, including
any compensation payable by an employer to an employee for such personal services,
whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise.
(6) "Employer" means any person owing a debt accruing to the judgment debtor
by reason of personal services.
(7) "Family support judgment" means a judgment, order or decree of the Superior
Court or a family support magistrate for payment of a legal obligation for support or
alimony to a spouse, former spouse or child and includes any such order for periodic
payments whether issued pendente lite or otherwise.
(8) "Financial institution" means a financial institution as defined in section 36a-41.
(9) "Installment payment order" means the fixing by the court of a sum to be paid
periodically by the judgment debtor until satisfaction of a money judgment.
(10) "Judgment creditor" means a person in whose favor a money judgment was
rendered, or any person succeeding to such rights.
(11) "Judgment debtor" means a person against whom a money judgment was rendered.
(12) "Levying officer" means a state marshal or constable acting within such marshal's or constable's geographical jurisdiction or in IV-D cases, any investigator employed by the Commissioner of Social Services.
(13) "Money judgment" means a judgment, order or decree of the court calling in
whole or in part for the payment of a sum of money, other than a family support judgment.
Money judgment includes any such money judgment of a small claims session of the
Superior Court, any foreign money judgment filed with the Superior Court pursuant to
the general statutes and in IV-D cases, overdue support in the amount of five hundred
dollars or more accruing after the entry of an initial family support judgment.
(14) "Person" includes an individual, a partnership, an association, a limited liability
company or a corporation.
(15) "Postjudgment procedure" means any procedure commenced after rendition
of a money judgment, seeking or otherwise involving a discovery procedure, a placing
of a lien on property, a modification or discharge of a lien, a property execution under
section 52-356a, a turnover order, an installment payment order, a wage execution, a
modification of a wage execution, a compliance order, a protective order or a determination of exemption rights.
(16) "Property" means any real or personal property in which the judgment debtor
has an interest which he could assign or transfer, including (A) any present or future
right or interest, whether or not vested or liquidated, (B) any debt, whether due or to
become due, and (C) any cause of action which could be assigned or transferred.
(P.A. 83-581, S. 1, 40; P.A. 84-527, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 175, 189; P.A. 96-268, S. 11, 34; P.A. 00-99, S. 114, 154; P.A.
01-195, S. 62, 181; P.A. 03-107, S. 8.)
History: P.A. 84-527 amended the definition of "postjudgment procedure" to add "a modification of a wage execution"
and to replace "protection" with "protective" order; P.A. 95-79 redefined "person" to include a limited liability company,
effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 96-268 redefined "family support judgment" to add "family support magistrate", redefined
"levying offices" to add "in IV-D cases, any investigator employed by the Commissioner of Social Services" and redefined
"money judgment" to add overdue support in the amount of $500 or more in IV-D cases, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 00-99 replaced reference to sheriff and deputy sheriff with state marshal in Subdiv. (12), effective December 1, 2000; P.A.
01-195 made a technical change in Subdiv. (12) for purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 03-107
made a technical change in Subdiv. (4), effective June 18, 2003.
Cited. 232 C. 216. Cited. 240 C. 343.
Cited. 33 CA 359. A judgment of foreclosure by sale is not a money judgment and the proceedings following a judgment
of foreclosure by sale are not postjudgment proceedings for the purposes of this section. 108 CA 134.
Subdiv. (5):
Definition of term "earnings" discussed. 232 C. 216.
Although second phrase of definition does not apply to defendant because she is an independent contractor and not an
employee, the commissions defendant receive as real estate salesperson are earnings because they are debts accruing by
reason of her personal service. 50 CS 460.
Subdiv. (7):
Cited. 211 C. 485. Cited. 240 C. 35.
Cited. 15 CA 718.
Subdiv. (13):
Cited. 211 C. 485. Cited. 240 C. 35.
Cited. 15 CA 718. Marital dissolution judgment regarding child's educational expenses did not order payment of a sum
certain and cannot be characterized as a money judgment. 99 CA 347.
Subdiv. (15):
Cited. 240 C. 35.