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Iowa Code (Last Updated: December 05, 2016) |
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Title XV. JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES |
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Chapter 633. PROBATE CODE |
Section 633.679. Petition to terminate— cases transferred from juvenile court — request for voting rights reinstatement.
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1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, at any time after the appointment of a guardian or conservator, the person under guardianship or conservatorship may apply to the court by petition, alleging that the person is no longer a proper subject thereof, and asking that the guardianship or conservatorship be terminated.
2. Unless the child or guardian dies or other exceptional circumstances arise, if the court has appointed a guardian for a minor child for whom the court’s jurisdiction over the child’s guardianship was established pursuant to transfer of the child’s case in accordance with section 232.101A or 232.104, a petition shall not be filed asking that the guardianship be terminated or modified until at least six months has elapsed from the date the order was entered appointing the guardian.
3. A person under an order appointing a guardian which order found the person incompetent to vote may include a request for reinstatement of the person’s voting rights in a petition to terminate the guardianship or by filing a separate petition for modification of this determination.
[C97, §3222; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12623; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §670.11; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.679]