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2. Earning arrestment

• Current maintenance arrestment
• Conjoined arrestment orders
• How does it work
• Earnings arrestment schedule
• Employer’s duty to provide information
• Creditor’s duty to provide information
• Client’s duty to provide information
• Applications for orders that an earnings arrestment is invalid
• When does an earning arrestment end

An earning arrestment was introduced by the Debtors Scotland Act 1987. It is the second most common form of diligence used in Scotland to recover debts, with 57,260 being served in 2022/23.

There are three types of arrestment:

•earnings arrestment;
•current maintenance arrestment;
•conjoined arrestment order.