Medical Finance Ass'n v. Rambo

Sections 690 and 690.11, Code of Civil Procedure, exempt from execution or attachment, in a case such as we have here, “one-half of the earnings of the defendant or judgment debtor received for his personal services rendered at any time within thirty days next preceding the levy of attachment or execution” upon a proper showing that such half is necessary for the support, of himself and family. The word “received”, here, is not to be taken as requiring that earnings, to be exempt, must be paid over to the judgment debtor. So to construe it would prevent the exemption of earnings which, like…