602.10119 - UNLAWFUL RETENTION OF MONEY.
602.10119 UNLAWFUL RETENTION OF MONEY. An attorney who receives the money or property of a client in the course of the attorney's professional business, and refuses to pay or deliver it in a reasonable time, after demand, is guilty of a theft and punished accordingly.
Section History: Early Form [C51, § 1627; R60, § 2717; C73, § 224; C97, § 330; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10927; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 610.21]
Section History: Recent Form 83 Acts, ch 186, § 10202(2) CS83, § 602.10119 Referred to in § 602.10120