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Garnishment - a legal withholding of a specified sum from wages to satisfy a creditor.

General price list - summary from a mortician itemizing costs of goods and services for a burial or cremation.

Goldberg/Kelly - a Supreme Court decision requiring a client be given written notice prior to reduction, suspension or termination of SSI and allows payments to continue at the previous rate until a decision is made after a timely appeal is filed.

Good cause - a specified reason based on accepted standards supporting the individual's action and thereby eliminates the penalty which normally a sanction is imposed.

Grantor - the person giving the Trustee the legal right to manage a trust.

Gross income - see Income.

Guardian - a person appointed by the court to care for another person as specified in the court.