§ 487.010.Generally

Section 487.010 draws a sharp line based on who the defendant is. If the defendant is a corporation, all corporate property for which Chapter 8's Article 2 (§ 488.300 and following) provides a method of levy is subject to attachment. If the defendant is a partnership or other unincorporated association, the same rule applies to all partnership or association property. Entity defendants, in short, face a broad reach.

A natural-person defendant faces something narrower: a closed, eleven-item list in subdivision (c). It covers interests in real property (except leaseholds with less than a year left to run); accounts receivable, chattel paper, and general intangibles arising from the defendant's trade, business, or profession (except any individual claim under a hundred fifty dollars); equipment; farm products; inventory; final money judgments arising from the defendant's trade, business, or profession; money on the business premises and, apart from the first thousand dollars, money held elsewhere and deposit accounts (with the court able to order, on the plaintiff's application, that an aggregate thousand dollars across such money and accounts stay free of levy when the defendant has more than one account or holds money both on and off the business premises); negotiable documents of title; instruments; securities; and minerals or the like awaiting extraction.

Subdivision (d) extends the same reach to community property of the types listed in (c), but only if that community property would be subject to enforcement of the judgment sought in the action. Where that condition is met, the title's provisions about the defendant's property and obligations owed to the defendant apply equally to the defendant's spouse's community interest and to obligations owed to either spouse that are community property, and provisions about property in the defendant's possession or control apply equally to community property in the spouse's possession or control.