In re the Marriage of Schuhs

Elliott, J.:

In these five consolidated cases, appellants appeal the trial court’s findings that their workers compensation benefits may be attached for past due child support, even though their work-related injuries occurred prior to the 1993 amendment to the workers compensation law, which now allows involuntary attachments for past due child support.

We affirm.

*99The facts are not in dispute and are essentially as related above. Prior to the 1993 amendments, workers compensation law contained a spendfhrift/exemption/anti-alienation section. Prior to the 1993 amendment, K.S.A. 44-514 provided…