This text of Iowa § 252H.24 (Role of child support services — filing and docketing of cost-of-living alteration order — order effective as district court order) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Iowa primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
order — order effective as district court order.
1.Upon receipt of a request and required documentation for a cost-of-living alteration,
child support services shall issue a notice of the amount of cost-of-living alteration by regular
mail to the last known address of each parent, or, if applicable, each parent’s attorney. The
notice shall include all of the following:
a.A statement that either parent may contest the cost-of-living alteration within thirty
days of the date of the notice by making a request for a review of a support order as provided
in section 252H.13, and if either parent does not make a request for a review within thirty
days, childsupportservicesshallprepareanadministrativeorderasprovidedinsubsection4.
b.A statement that the parent may waive the thirty-day notice wai
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order — order effective as district court order.
1. Upon receipt of a request and required documentation for a cost-of-living alteration,
child support services shall issue a notice of the amount of cost-of-living alteration by regular
mail to the last known address of each parent, or, if applicable, each parent’s attorney. The
notice shall include all of the following:
a. A statement that either parent may contest the cost-of-living alteration within thirty
days of the date of the notice by making a request for a review of a support order as provided
in section 252H.13, and if either parent does not make a request for a review within thirty
days, childsupportservicesshallprepareanadministrativeorderasprovidedinsubsection4.
b. A statement that the parent may waive the thirty-day notice waiting period provided
for in this section.
2. Upon timely receipt of a request and required documentation for a review of a support
order as provided in subsection 1 from either parent, child support services shall terminate
the cost-of-living alteration process and apply the provisions of subchapters I and II of this
chapter relating to review and adjustment.
3. Upon receipt of signed requests from both parents subject to the support order,
waiving the notice waiting period, child support services may prepare an administrative
order pursuant to subsection 4 altering the support obligation.
4. If timely request for a review pursuant to section 252H.13 is not made, and if the
thirty-day notice waiting period has expired, or if both parents have waived the notice
waiting period, child support services shall prepare and present an administrative order for
a cost-of-living alteration, ex parte, to the district court where the order to be altered is filed.
5. Unlessdefectsappearonthefaceoftheadministrativeorderorontheattachments, the
district court shall approve the order. Upon filing, the approved order shall have the same
force, effect, and attributes of an order of the district court.
6. Upon filing, the clerk of the district court shall enter the order in the judgment docket
and judgment lien index.
7. Iftheparentsjointlywaivethethirty-daynoticewaitingperiod,thesignedstatementsof
bothparentswaivingthenoticeperiodshallbefiledinthecourtrecordwiththeadministrative
order altering the support obligation.
8. Child support services shall send a copy of the order by regular mail to each parent’s
last known address, or, if applicable, to the last known address of the parent’s attorney.
9. An administrative order approved by the district court is final, and action by child
support services to enforce and collect upon the order may be taken from the date of the
entry of the order by the district court.