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In Texas, your wages cannot be garnished for non-payment of a private debt. However, if the amount owed is reduced to a judgment, your bank accounts could be garnished to satisfy the judgment amount.

If the time for doing so has not already expired, you could file an appeal in the lawsuit where the judgment was rendered. You would need to assert some reason why it's wrong and point out what mistake the trial court made. If the time already has run out or if the trial court did not make some particular mistake, then I don't see any way for you to dispute the judgment at this point. You also asked whether a bankruptcy can get rid of the judgment. The answer is yes, a bankruptcy could wipe it out (which is different than disputing it).

You can always be evicted for not paying rent. If you have a bankruptcy filing then there is a way to get the unpaid rent taken care of via another method, and that can help in keeping the landlord from succeeding on an eviction case against you. It could be filed in the bankruptcy court or in the regular JP/eviction court (after getting the automatic stay lifted). But either way, filing bankruptcy does not mean you can force the landlord to keep you in his property for free. Subject to some non-bankruptcy laws about preventing housing discrimination, a landlord doesn't have to give a new lease to someone he doesn't want to; bankruptcy doesn't change that.