You receive a letter from your bank informing you that a "Restraining Notice" has been served on the bank and that funds in your account are being held to satisfy a judgment. This is commonly referred to as a "frozen" bank account.
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It is used by a judgment creditor to freeze the assets of the debtor and to find out what assets the debtor has.
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Typically, when preparing to collect from the judgment debtor's bank account, the judgment creditor should make sure that he/she has sent a restraining notice to the bank that houses the judgment debtor's's account.
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Yesterday I was told my bank that a restraining notice had been placed on my account. I called the lawyer's office at the # my bank gave me, and was told this is a Citibank card acct that was opened in 1994. It has not been used in at least 10 years in any way.
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Banks may not charge the account holder a fee if it is served with a restraining notice and the bank account cannot be lawfully restrained or if the restraint is placed on the account in violation of the law.
www.banking.state.ny.us/il090120.htm www.banking.state.ny.us/il090120.htm
Peter M. Agulnick, P.C., has a diligent and aggressive judgement-enforcement and collections practice with a proven record of success for our clients. ... Freezing a judgement debtor's bank accounts and portfolios by serving restraining notices and information subpoenas.
www.agulnicklaw.com/judgement-enforcement-new-york.html
This morning I went online to pay some bills through my bank account. I saw my account was seriously in the negative and a restraining notice was on there. I called the bank and asked what it was.
www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/313/RipOff0313153.htm
Phase I, conducted at minimal expense, develops financial information on the subject and his family members, current activity, life style and resources in the U.S. Bank account assets located in the U.S. are frozen through a restraining notice, whereupon the client's attorney can have the sheriff levy on the accounts.
www.ableforensics.com/asset.html
"Therefore, by serving a Restraining Notice on a debtor's bank, a creditor can freeze a debtor's bank account and prevent a debtor from withdrawing his or her funds even when the only funds in the debtor's account are exempt from seizure," Rochester Judge Ellen Yacknin wrote in Contact Resource Servs., LLC v. Gregory,
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