In Re the Marriage of Vannausdle

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• recognizing “the actual and necessary costs of attending college exceed tuition, books, supplies, and a room and board plan,” and incorporating personal expenses and transportation into those costs
• applying Iowa Code section 598.21(5A) retroactively to a decree that did not fix the amount of higher education support
• stating “our legislature specifically made the provisions retroactive, and any divorce decree providing for support of a child in college entered before July 1, 1997, is subject to modification in accordance with the statutory procedures.”
• “We think our legislature also understood that the necessary postsecondary education expenses includes more than tuition, books, and room and board.”
• “loans should have been excluded from the student contribution component of the formula .... Implicit in the parties’ approach is their mutual understanding ... loans should not be used to reduce their respective subsidy.”

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