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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="15-302" title_number="15" title_name="Debt Collection -- Special Provisions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Assignment of Wages">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An assignment of wages is not valid unless:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The assignment is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>In writing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Signed and acknowledged by the assignor before a notary public in and for the county where he resides; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Entered the same day on the docket of the court by the clerk; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within three days from the execution and acknowledgment of the assignment, a copy of the assignment with the certificate of acknowledgment is served on the assignor’s employer in the same manner as the Maryland Rules provide for service of a summons.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An assignment of wages by a married person is not valid unless also executed and acknowledged by the assignor’s spouse in the manner required by subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An assignment of wages to be earned in whole or in part more than six months after the making of the assignment is void.</text>
  </level>
</section>
