Shepherd v. Shepherd

LARSON, Justice.

In the 1970 dissolution proceeding between Gladys Shepherd and Paul Shepherd, Paul was ordered to pay $45 per week child support. Gladys received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) through the state of Iowa and in exchange gave an assignment of her rights to child support. Paul had paid virtually nothing on the child support obligation when he began to collect social security benefits.

In 1989, the state’s Child Support Recovery Unit (CSRU) issued an “order for mandatory income withholding” under Iowa Code section 252D.3 (1989) to the Social Security Administration…