Terms Used In Iowa Code 600.20

  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
600.20 Availability of assistance.
Financial assistance shall be available only if the child to be adopted was under the guardianship of the state, county, or an agency immediately prior to adoption. The one-hundred-eighty-day period of residence in the proposed home required in § 600.10 shall not apply to this section.
[C73, 75, §600.14; C77, 79, 81, §600.20]
2017 Acts, ch 113, §14
Referred to in §600.5, 600.18, 600.22, 627.19