2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 1 - Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 598 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
598.22A - SATISFACTION OF SUPPORT PAYMENTS.

        598.22A  SATISFACTION OF SUPPORT PAYMENTS.
         Notwithstanding sections 252B.14 and 598.22, support payments
      ordered pursuant to any support chapter for orders entered on or
      after July 1, 1985, which are not made pursuant to the provisions of
      section 252B.14 or 598.22, shall be credited only as provided in this
      section.
         1.  For payment made pursuant to an order, the clerk of the
      district court or collection services center shall record a
      satisfaction as a credit on the official support payment record if
      its validity is confirmed by the court upon submission of an
      affidavit by the person entitled to receive the payment or upon
      submission of documentation of the financial instrument used in the
      payment of the support by the person ordered to pay support, after
      notice is given to all parties.
         If a satisfaction recorded on the official support payment record
      by the clerk of the district court or collection services center
      prior to July 1, 1991, was not confirmed as valid by the court, and a
      party to the action submits a written affidavit objecting to the
      satisfaction, notice of the objection shall be mailed to all parties
      at their last known addresses.  After all parties have had sufficient
      opportunity to respond to the objection, the court shall either
      require the satisfaction to be removed from the official support
      payment record or confirm its validity.
         2.  For purposes of this section, the state is a party to which
      notice shall be given when public funds have been expended pursuant
      to chapter 234, 239B, or 249A, or similar statutes in another state.
      If proper notice is not given to the state when required, any order
      of satisfaction is void.
         3.  The court shall not enter an order for satisfaction of
      payments not made through the clerk of the district court or
      collection services center if those payments have been assigned as a
      result of public funds expended pursuant to chapter 234, 239B, or
      249A, or similar statutes in other states and the support payments
      accrued during the months in which public funds were expended.  If
      the support order did not direct payments to a clerk of the district
      court or the collection services center, and the support payments in
      question accrued during the months in which public funds were not
      expended, however, the court may enter an order for satisfaction of
      payments not made through the clerk of the district court or the
      collection services center if documentation of the financial
      instrument used in the payment of support is presented to the court
      and the parties to the order submit a written affidavit confirming
      that the financial instrument was used as payment for support.
         4.  Payment of accrued support debt due the department of human
      services shall be credited pursuant to section 252B.3, subsection 5.
      

         Section History: Recent Form

         90 Acts, ch 1224, §48; 91 Acts, ch 177, §7; 93 Acts, ch 79, §51;
      97 Acts, ch 41, §32; 98 Acts, ch 1170, §42; 2005 Acts, ch 112, §18
         Referred to in § 252B.3, 252B.14, 598.22 

         Footnotes

         Certain support arrearages for which rights remain assigned to the
      department of public health for time periods prior to October 1,
      1997, are considered satisfied up to amount of assistance received or
      foster care funds expended; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §8