Section 252.23. Legal settlement disputes.

  If the alleged settlement is disputed, then, within thirty days after notice as provided in section 252.22, a copy of the notices sent and received shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county against which claim is made, and a cause docketed without other pleadings, and tried as an ordinary action, in which the county granting the assistance shall be plaintiff, and the other defendant, and the burden of proof shall be upon the county granting the assistance. However, a dispute concerning the liability of a person’s county of residence for assistance provided through the county’s mental health and disability services system implemented under chapter 331 in connection with services initiated under chapter 222, 230, or 249A shall be resolved as provided in section 331.394.

[C51, §816, 817; R60, §1384, 1385; C73, §1359, 1360; C97, §2228; C24, 27, 31, 35, §5318; C39, §3828.095; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §252.23]

92 Acts, ch 1212, §13

; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §53

; 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §124, 130