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- Wage Earner Plan
- the name for the plan under the predecessor of Chapter 13 in the Bankruptcy Act. The term is obsolete but is still sometimes used to describe a Chapter 13 plan.
- Wage garnishment
- A nonbankruptcy legal proceeding whereby a plaintiff or creditor seeks to subject to his or her claim the future wages of a debtor. In other words, the creditor seeks to have part of the debtor's future wages paid to the creditor for a debt owed to the creditor.
- Wage Order
- A wage order is a court order which is sent to your employer directing a payroll deduction be remitted from your wages to the trustee. It is similar to a garnishment.
- Warrant
- Court authorization, most often for law enforcement officers, to conduct a search or make an arrest.
- Warrant of Attorney
- a provision in a contract or instrument of debt, appointing the creditor to act as the debtor's agent in confessing to judgment if the debtor should default. See confession to judgment.
- Wildcard Provision
- a nickname for §522(d)(5) (or an equivalent provision in a state statute) under which the debtor may apply a general exemption to any property selected, up to a prescribed value.
- Witness
- A person called upon by either side in a lawsuit to give testimony before the court or jury.
- Workout
- a negotiated settlement under which the debtor and creditors resolve the debtor's financial difficulties by agreeing to terms of payment. A workout may occur outside of bankruptcy, resulting in a composition and extension, or it may take place in the process of formulating a plan in a bankruptcy case.
- Writ
- a written order issued pursuant to court authority, requiring the sheriff or some other official to perform an act, such as the levy of execution.
- Writ of certiorari
- An order issued by the U.S. Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case which it will hear on appeal.
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