Calculation Guidelines for Subsistence Minimum in Wage Attachments Adjustment

The court issued a directive, effective January 1, 2007, to adjust the calculation guidelines for the legally protected subsistence minimum (Existenzminimum) in wage and earnings attachments, primarily to incorporate the newly enacted Federal Act on Registered Partnerships of Same-Sex Couples. The directive specifies fixed monthly base amounts for debtors based on their household composition (single, single supporting others, or a couple), additional amounts for dependent children, and lists various necessary surcharges such as rent, heating, social contributions, unavoidable professional expenses, and legally owed support payments, while explicitly excluding taxes from the calculation and detailing how the income of spouses or registered partners and adult children residing in the household affects the debtor's protected amount.