Questão jurídica principal
Whether necessary employment-related expenses must be deducted from the debtor’s income or added to the family minimum subsistence in a wage attachment for married debtors.
Decisão extraída
For married debtors, necessary employment expenses are to be deducted from income before calculating the attachable wage share; they are not to be added to the minimum subsistence.
Fundamentação extraída
The choice of method affects the attachable share only in the married-debtor situation. Employment expenses are personal expenses of the earning spouse, not family maintenance costs, and the spouse can contribute to household expenses only from income remaining after these necessary expenses. Social insurance premiums or similar items that are normally common household costs may instead be added to income and included in the joint minimum.