252H.21 - PURPOSE -- INTENT -- EFFECT ON REQUIREMENTS FOR GUIDELINES.
252H.21 PURPOSE -- INTENT -- EFFECT ON REQUIREMENTS
FOR GUIDELINES.
1. This subchapter is intended to provide a procedure to
accommodate a request of both parents to expeditiously change a
support order due to changes in the cost of living.
2. All of the following shall apply to a cost-of-living
alteration under this subchapter:
a. To the extent permitted under 42 U.S.C. §
666(a)(10)(A)(i)(II), the cost-of-living alteration shall be an
exception to any requirement under law for the application of the
child support guidelines established pursuant to section 598.21B,
including but not limited to any requirement in this chapter or
chapter 234, 252A, 252B, 252C, 252F, 598, or 600B.
b. The cost-of-living alteration shall not prevent any
subsequent modification or adjustment to the support order as
otherwise provided in law based on application of the child support
guidelines.
c. The calculation of a cost-of-living alteration to a child
support order shall be compounded as follows:
(1) Increase or decrease the child support order by the
percentage change of the appropriate consumer price index for the
month and year after the month and year the child support order was
last issued, modified, adjusted, or altered.
(2) Increase or decrease the amount of the child support order
calculated in subparagraph (1) for each subsequent year by applying
the appropriate consumer price index for each subsequent year to the
result of the calculation for the previous year. The final year in
the calculation shall be the year immediately preceding the year the
unit received the completed request for the cost-of-living
alteration.
d. The amount of the cost-of-living alteration in the notice
in section 252H.24, subsection 1, shall be the result of the
calculation in paragraph "c". Section History: Recenorm
97 Acts, ch 175, §106; 2005 Acts, ch 69, §29