STATE EX REL. LANKFORD v. ALLBEE

No. 94-1079.

544 N.W.2d 639 (1996)

STATE of Iowa ex rel. Chastity LANKFORD, Appellant, v. Donald ALLBEE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 14, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Gordon E. Allen, Deputy Attorney General, Robert R. Huibregtse, Assistant Attorney General, and Tina M. Meth-Farrington, County Attorney, for appellant.

Reta Noblett-Feld of University of Iowa Clinical Law Programs and Gerry L. White and Daniel Mulligan, Student Legal Interns, Iowa City, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, NEUMAN, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.


TERNUS, Justice.

The State seeks to attach appellant Donald Allbee's institutional allowance to satisfy Allbee's current and delinquent child support obligations. The State served the Iowa Men's Reformatory, where Allbee is an inmate, with a mandatory income withholding order. The district court sustained Allbee's motion to quash the order. The State appeals. We affirm.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

Allbee has a court-ordered support...

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