Statutes > Iowa Statutes > Title 6 - Human Services > Subtitle 6 - Children and Families > CHAPTER 249B - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO INSTITUTIONALIZED SPOUSES > 249B.5 - FILING AND DOCKETING OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ORDER -- ORDER EFFECTIVE AS COURT DECREE.

249B.5 - FILING AND DOCKETING OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ORDER -- ORDER EFFECTIVE AS COURT DECREE.

        249B.5  FILING AND DOCKETING OF FINANCIAL
      RESPONSIBILITY ORDER -- ORDER EFFECTIVE AS COURT DECREE.
         A true copy of an order entered by the department pursuant to this
      chapter, along with a true copy of the return of service if
      applicable, may be filed in the office of the clerk of the district
      court in the county in which the institutionalized spouse resides.
      Upon filing, the clerk shall enter the order in the judgment docket,
      and the department's order shall be presented to the district court
      for ex parte review and approval, and unless defects appear on the
      face of the order or on the attachments, the district court shall
      approve the order and the order has the force, effect, and attributes
      of a docketed order or decree of the district court.
         Section History: Recent Form
         90 Acts, ch 1098, §5