§ 493.020.Defendant Authorized to Make General Assignment

Attachment law gives a plaintiff powerful tools to freeze a defendant's assets, but § 493.020 makes sure none of those tools stop a defendant from taking the separate, common insolvency step of assigning everything to a general assignee for the benefit of creditors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the defendant may make that assignment.

This section is short because it functions as a gateway to the rest of the chapter -- it confirms the defendant's basic right to make the assignment, while §§ 493.030 through 493.060 work out what that assignment does to any existing attachment lien.