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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


FRED HODGINS, JANICE HODGINS and HODGINS KENNELS, INC., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v GEORGE BURGESS, Defendant-Appellee.

UNPUBLISHED August 17, 1999

No. 205052 St. Clair Circuit Court LC No. 96-003308 CZ

Before: Doctoroff, P.J., Markman and J.B.Sullivan*, JJ. PER CURIAM. Plaintiffs appeal by leave granted from an order denying reconsideration of an order denying their motion to increase wage assignment installment payments. We reverse. In 1986, plaintiffs obtained a judgment in a defamation action filed against defendant and The Times Herald Company.1 In 1990, in order to satisfy the judgment, plaintiffs obtained a wage assignment order against defendant in the amount of $100 a week. At the time of the entry of the wage assignment order, defendant owned certain real estate on which there existed a lien in favor of plaintiffs. Defendant allegedly engaged in a fraudulent transfer of the property, and plaintiffs were ultimately unable to obtain any funds from that property. Accordingly, pursuant to MCL 600.6221; MSA 27A.6221, plaintiffs moved in the trial court to increase the amount of the wage assignment to the maximum amount permitted by 15 USC

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