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Iowa Code § 237.14A

Reasonable and prudent parent standard — immunity from liability

2016 Acts, ch 1063, §21; 2025 Acts, ch 135, §25

The department, or any individual, kinship caregiver, agency, or juvenile shelter care home that applies the reasonable and prudent parent standard reasonably and in good faith in regard to a child in child foster care shall have immunity from civil or criminal liability which might otherwise be incurred or imposed. This section shall not remove or limit any existing liability protection afforded under any other law.

Section amended

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