600A.10 - TERMINATION PROCEDURES -- PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. - Iowa Statutes

600A.10 TERMINATION PROCEDURES -- PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. 1. Any biological parent who chooses to identify the other biological parent and who knowingly and intentionally identifies a person who is not the other biological parent in the written release of custody or in any other document related to the termination of parental rights proceedings is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. 2. Any person who accepts a release of custody under section 600A.4 prior to the expiration of the seventy-two-hour period required is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.          Section History: Recent Form 94 Acts, ch 1174, §21, 22