Any county having expended money for the assistance or support of a poor person under this chapter, may recover the money from any of the following: from the poor person if the person becomes able, or from the person’s estate; from relatives by action brought within two years from the payment of the assistance or support, from the poor person by action brought within two years after the person becomes able, and from the person’s estate by filing the claim as provided by law. There shall be allowed against the person’s estate a claim of the sixth class for that portion of the liability to the county which exceeds the total amount of all claims of the first through the fifth classes, inclusive, as defined in section 633.425, which are allowed against that estate.
92 Acts, ch 1212, §11
Referred to in
Claims against estate, §633.410 et seq.