In the Matter of the Estate of Arnold Melby, Iowa

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• “When construing statutes, we assess not just isolated words and phrases, but statutes in their entirety . . . .”
• “When construing statutes, we assess not just isolated words and phrases, but statutes in their entirety, and we avoid constructions rendering parts of a statute redundant, irrelevant, or absurd.”
• “Our interpretation creating the debt immediately upon provision of assistance rather than at the death of the recipient, and allowing recovery from the corpus of the trust, is consistent with the Medicaid program’s goal . . . .”

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