(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where an attachment or an execution on a judgment is levied upon wages due a judgment debtor from an employer-garnishee under the provisions of this title, the attachment or execution (referred to as the “levy” in the remainder of this chapter) may become a lien and a continuing levy upon the gross wages due or to become due to the judgment debtor for the amount specified in the levy, if so decreed by the courts, but subject to the following limitation: ten percent (10%) of so much of the gross wages as exceeds thirty dollars ($30) due or to become due to the judgment debtor from the employer-garnishee for any weekly pay period, or its equivalent for any pay period of a different duration.
(b) The lien shall be a continuing levy until the judgment, interest, and costs thereof are fully satisfied and paid, and in no event may moneys be withheld by the employer-garnishee from the judgment debtor in amounts greater than those prescribed by this section. Only one levy upon the wages of the judgment debtor may be satisfied at one time. Where more than one levy is issued upon the wages of the same judgment debtor and served upon the same employer-garnishee, the levy first delivered to the marshal shall have priority, and all subsequent levies shall be satisfied in the order of priority according to the dates when they were so delivered to the marshal.
(c) The percentage limitation prescribed by this section does not apply in the case of execution upon a judgment, order, or decree of any court in the Virgin Islands for the payment of any sum for the support or maintenance of a person's spouse or former spouse and any such execution, judgment, order or decree shall, in the discretion of the court, have priority over any levy that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. In the case of execution upon such a judgment, order, or decree for the payment of such sum for support or maintenance, the limitation shall be fifty percent (50%) of the gross wages due or to become due to any such person for the pay period or periods ending in any calendar month.
(d) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any execution, judgment, order or decree for the payment by a person of support or maintenance for his or her children. Such executions, judgments, orders or decrees shall be governed by Title 16, chapter 13, subchapter 1 of this Code and shall in all instances take priority over any levy governed by the provisions of this chapter.