Payments — Records — Delinquency — Notice of Balance or of Satisfaction
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The clerk shall keep a record in such cause of all payments to and disbursements by the clerk.
Upon failure of such judgment debtor to comply with such order, the clerk shall make notation thereof on the record in such cause, and thereupon the stay of execution by garnishment shall immediately and without further act by any party become null and void.
The judge in whose court judgment was rendered may, upon proper showing by affidavit of the judgment debtor and after full hearing thereof, reinstate the order and stay of garnishment, or may amend the order so as to alter the terms and the amount of payment, if it shall appear that such default was due to the lack of employment or other justifiable cause beyond the control of the judgment debtor.
In any case in which a garnishment has been answered by an employer garnishee and while the lien of garnishment created thereby is in effect the underlying judgment is paid in full or otherwise satisfied of record in the clerk's office, it shall be the duty of the court clerk promptly to notify the garnishee of the satisfaction of the judgment and the expiration of the lien of garnishment.
The judgment creditor shall notify the court clerk of the balance due upon a judgment whenever the creditor causes the issuance or revival of a garnishment thereon. Furthermore, the judgment creditor shall notify the court clerk when the judgment has been satisfied.