Garnishment Release From The Court
I am going to try and make a long story short. My mother is 82 with Alzheimers. My brother is 41 and the caretaker of my mother. He has Mestases Melanoma. My mother receives Social Security and my brother receives Social Security Disability, both by direct deposit into a joint checking account. On Sept. 16th there was a judgement against my mother for a very old credit card debt and their joint account was frozen. As soon as my brother discovered this, he called the attorney for the debt collector and explained that the money in the account was from SSI and SSD and therefore exempt, which the attorney for the debt collector agreed. The garnishment was released by the court on Sept. 22nd.
As of today, the attorney for the debt collector said that they never even saw the money, and the bank is giving him the runaround. My brother will be receiving Chemotherapy very soon and my mother is almost out of her medications. We have the Garnishment Release from the court and my brother took a copy of it to the bank.
So, now my question is "who is responsible for returning the money back to the account"? This is in Michigan. I am planning on going to the bank and parking my butt there until this is resolved, but I need to find out who exactly is responsible to return the money.
He has contacted Social Security to receive paper checks from now on, and plans on closing out this account as soon as the money is put back in, but with so many excuses from the bank and a major blame game going on, he is at his wits end. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You!
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