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Terms Used In Iowa Code 627.13

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
627.13 Workers’ compensation.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 554.9406 and 554.9408, any compensation due or that may become due an employee or dependent under chapter 85, 85A, or 85B is exempt from garnishment, attachment, execution, and assignment of income, except for the purposes of enforcing child, spousal, or medical support obligations. For the purposes of enforcing child, spousal, or medical support obligations, an assignment of income, garnishment or attachment of or the execution against compensation due an employee under chapter 85,
85A, or 85B is not exempt but shall be limited as specified in 15 U.S.C. § 1673(b). [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11766; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §627.13]
92 Acts, ch 1195, §511; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §50; 2001 Acts, ch 87, §8