Short answer. No. Both the right to receive legal support and the money or property actually obtained as support are protected: they cannot be levied upon on attachment or execution. So a creditor of the recipient cannot reach it. The shield covers legal support only, not everything a family calls support.
What the law says
The right to receive support under this Title as well as any money or property obtained as such support shall not be levied upon on attachment or execution.
Family Code, Article 205 — Support Is Exempt From Attachment and Execution. Read the full provision →
What the law says
In case of contractual support or that given by will, the excess in amount beyond that required for legal support shall be subject to levy on attachment or execution.
Family Code, Article 208 — Contractual and Testamentary Support. Read the full provision →
The exemption covers the money, not just the right
Article 205 is short and does two things at once: the right to receive support under this Title as well as any money or property obtained as such support shall not be levied upon on attachment or execution. The first half stops a creditor from stepping into the recipient's shoes and claiming the support itself. The second half matters more in daily life, because it follows the money after it has been handed over. Support does not lose its character the moment it is received, which is precisely what a creditor would like it to do.
Why the law puts it out of reach
Support is not wealth; it is subsistence, calibrated to what the recipient needs to live and what the obligor can spare. Allowing it to be seized would defeat the obligation at the moment it was performed, and the person left short would be a child or a dependent relative who owed the creditor nothing. That is also the boundary of the rule. It protects support from the recipient's creditors; it is not a device for the person paying, whose own income and property remain exposed to his own debts in the ordinary way.
Where the shield stops
Not everything called support is legal support. Article 208 provides that in contractual support or that given by will, the excess in amount beyond that required for legal support shall be subject to levy on attachment or execution. So a generous allowance under a private agreement is protected up to what the law would have required and no further. The practical consequence is that the size of the legal entitlement — the proportion between means and necessities — becomes the measure of the exemption, and a lump paid under an agreement may be partly reachable.
Claiming the exemption in practice
An exemption still has to be raised and shown. Money that has been mixed into a general account alongside salary and business receipts is harder to identify as support, and the burden of tracing it falls on the person claiming the protection. Keeping support in an account used for nothing else, and keeping the order or agreement that fixes the amount, turns an argument into a document. If a garnishment has already reached the funds, take the order, the account history and the support order to a lawyer promptly rather than waiting.
Related provisions
- Family Code, Article 208 — Contractual and Testamentary Support
- Family Code, Article 201 — Amount of Support: Means and Needs