STATE EX REL. NICHOLSON v. TOFTEE

No. 91-678.

494 N.W.2d 694 (1993)

STATE of Iowa ex rel. Trevor Wendell NICHOLSON, and State of Iowa ex rel. Iowa Department of Human Services, and Shawn Green, on Behalf of Brandon Toftee, Appellees, v. John Wayne TOFTEE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 20, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Deppe and Douglas Cook of Brekken, Deppe & Wynia, Jewell, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., John Parmeter, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert R. Huibregtse, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Rhonda Fitchett, Asst. County Atty., for appellees.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN and SNELL, JJ.


SNELL, Justice.

This case presents a recurring problem of how to determine child support obligations in a fair manner. We have established child support guidelines to further that end. A difficult situation has arisen in this case from the fact that three children of the same father are living in three separate households. The trial court used the guidelines table for one child to fix the amount of support; the court of appeals used the table for two children and...

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