252.23 - LEGAL SETTLEMENT DISPUTES. - Iowa Statutes

252.23 LEGAL SETTLEMENT DISPUTES. If the alleged settlement is disputed, then, within thirty days after notice as provided in section 252.22, a copy of the notices sent and received shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county against which claim is made, and a cause docketed without other pleadings, and tried as an ordinary action, in which the county granting the assistance shall be plaintiff, and the other defendant, and the burden of proof shall be upon the county granting the assistance. However, a legal settlement dispute initiated under chapter 222, 230, or 249A shall be resolved as provided in section 225C.8.          Section History: Early Form [C51, § 816, 817; R60, § 1384, 1385; C73, § 1359, 1360; C97, § 2228; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5318; C39, § 3828.095; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 252.23]          Section History: Recent Form 92 Acts, ch 1212, § 13; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §53 Referred to in § 232.141