§ 8.01-525.12.Clerk to preserve assignment; fees.

Administration of a salary assignment leaves a paper trail, and this section makes the clerk of court its keeper. The clerk maintains the court records of the assignment itself, along with every report the trustee files, and keeps an index of all such assignments on record, a reference point for creditors, the debtor, or anyone else who needs to check the assignment’s status.

Filing is not free: the clerk charges the fee set out in § 17.1-275 when the assignment is filed, the same kind of administrative charge that applies to other court filings.

Though brief, the section matters because it ties the whole article’s protections — the binding effect on creditors, the exemption from garnishment, the priority over later liens — to a public record the clerk maintains and indexes, so the assignment’s existence and status are not left to private memory.