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	State	Statute	Description/Statute Name	Statutory language	Type of poverty penalty or poverty trap	Level of offense	Mandatory
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Pennsylvania	42 Pa. Stat. Ann. § 9728(e)(1)	Preservation of assets - restitution	Upon the filing of a criminal complaint, information or indictment charging a criminal violation or a petition alleging delinquency for which restitution may be ordered and alleging that the property + See more with respect to which the order is sought appears to be necessary to satisfy such restitution order and judgment	Property liens	All	No
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-458	Property Lien	Every judgment for money rendered in this Commonwealth by any state or federal court or by confession of judgment, as provided by law, shall be a lien on all the + See more real estate of or to which the defendant in the judgment is or becomes possessed or entitled, from the time such judgment is recorded on the judgment lien docket of the clerk's office of the county or city where such land is situated	Property liens	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-466	Execution of writ of fieri facias	On a judgment for money, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which such judgment was rendered, upon request of the judgment creditor, his assignee + See more or his attorney, to issue a writ of fieri facias at the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of the entry of the judgment and place the same in the hands of a proper person to be executed and take his receipt therefor.	Property liens	All	Yes
Add to Dashboard + Create New	Virginia	Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-478	Liens on money and bank notes	The writ of fieri facias may be levied as well on the current money and bank notes, as on the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor, except such as + See more are exempt from levy under Title 34, and shall bind what is capable of being levied on only from the time it is actually levied by the officer to whom it has been delivered to be executed.	Property liens	All	No

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