Broyles v. Iowa Department of Social Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding under the facts that the ex-husband was not relieved from payment of delinquent support assigned to DHS when his former wife executed a release
• rejecting payor ex-spouse’s argument that valuable consideration supported payee ex-spouse’s purported waiver or release of future child support payments
• discussing comparable rule and noting while not “directly applicable” “it defines the manner in which the Department treats current and delinquent support payments, and it is grounded upon sound public policy”
• discussing comparable rule and noting while not “directly applicable” “it defines the manner in which the Department treats current and delinquent support payments, and it is grounded upon sound public policy”
• stating “when words are free from ambiguity, there is no occasion for interpretation”
• “In a valid assignment of a judgment the assign-ee assumes the rights, remedies, and benefits of the assignor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).