Q: Can a judgment creditor and debtor reach their own garnished-cash-rent agreement and ask the judge to document it?
The garnishee would be the "occupant/tenant" of the rental address (not a person's name), for the partial rent, and would be the only tenant occupying the single rental, and the agreement would keep the tenant's rights, and responsibilities to landlord, intact. It's all the same to the tenant.
A: The parties do not need a judge to "document it." That is not what judges do. Both of you should hire a lawyer and have them draft whatever needs to be drafted. As you say, the tenant should not care; all he does is write rent checks to whoever is supposed to get the money. The landlord MUST agree; otherwise the deal might go south.
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