STATE OF MINN. EX REL. DAGGETT v. BARR

No. 65876.

315 N.W.2d 805 (1982)

STATE of MINNESOTA, ex rel. Rosa Lee DAGGETT, Appellant, v. Dennis K. BARR, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Robert Huibregtse, Asst. Atty. Gen., and David L. Leitner, Asst. Floyd County Atty., for appellant.

Bradford L. Austin of Nyemaster, Goode, McLaughlin, Emery & O'Brien, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P. J., and McCORMICK, ALLBEE, LARSON and SCHULTZ, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

The question here concerns the dischargeability in bankruptcy of a child support obligation assigned to the state. Plaintiff State of Minnesota brought this declaratory judgment action challenging the constitutionality of a now-amended provision of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 which authorized discharge of defendant Dennis K. Barr's assigned child support obligation. The trial court upheld the constitutionality of the statute. We affirm.<...

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