Charging orders are applicable when the judgment debtor owns land.

• A. Charging orders are used to obtain a charge on land.
• B. Attachment of earnings orders.
• C. 3rd party debt orders.
• D. Order to obtain information.

Answer: (A)

Charging orders are used to secure a judgment debt against real property by creating a charge on the debtor’s land. If the judgment debtor owns land, a charging order registers a charge over that land so that the debt can be paid out of the land’s proceeds if it’s sold. This method directly ties the debt to the property, which is specifically what charging orders are designed to do for landowners.

The other methods operate on different assets or mechanisms: attaching the debtor’s earnings collects from wages; third-party debt orders target money owed to the debtor by others (like banks or other entities); and an order to obtain information is about locating assets and does not secure payment itself. Hence charging orders are the appropriate tool when the debtor owns land.