How to Collect a Doctor BillDavis, Franklyn Pierre
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How to Collect a Doctor Bill
Davis, Franklyn Pierre
Collecting of accounts; Jurisprudence; Medicine -- Practice -- Management
Every householder, being the head of a family, is entitled to a
homestead of the value of two thousand dollars exempt from execution and
attachment while such homestead is occupied by the owner or his or her
family. Entry of homestead is made by writing the word "homestead" on
the margin of the recorded title thereof, attested by the recorder with
date of entry. There is also exempt from execution and attachment the
necessary wearing apparel of every person, and the following property of
a person being the head of a family: Family pictures, school-books, and
library, a seat or pew in any house of public worship, the sites of
burial for the dead, all wearing apparel of the debtor and his family,
all beds, bedsteads, and bedding, kept and used for the debtor and his
family, all stoves and appendages kept for the use of the debtor or his
family, all cooking utensils, and all the household furniture not above
enumerated not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, the provisions
for the debtor and his family necessary for six months, and fuel
necessary for six months. The tools and implements or stock in trade of
any mechanic, miner, or other person not exceeding two hundred dollars
in value, the library and implements of any professional man not
exceeding three hundred dollars in value, one bicycle, one
sewing-machine, working animals of any person to the value of two
hundred dollars, one cow and calf, ten sheep, and food for same for six
months, one farm wagon, cart or dray, one plow, one harrow, and other
farming implements, including harness and tackle for team not exceeding
fifty dollars in value. If the head of the family dies the family is
entitled to the exemption. There is also exemption from levy on
execution, attachment, or garnishment sixty per cent. of the amount, due
at the time of levy, of wages or earnings of the head of the family or
his wife when such family resides in the State and is dependent in whole
or in part, upon such earnings, and all wages are exempt when they do
not exceed five dollars per week.
Pension money received from the United States is exempt from all legal
process, whether in the actual possession of the pensioner, deposited or
loaned, and whether the pensioner be the head of a family or not. This
exemption runs to the pensioner's wife and children, or either of them,
in case of his death or absconding.
CONNECTICUT.
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