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

        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