Costs if party is in default or contempt
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Upon the Petition of Brandy Marie Myers, and Concerning, Todd Alan Cosby (2015)
Most recently applied in Lynette Anne Heims v. Brad Francis Heims (May 2018)
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §598.24]
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
When an action for a modification, order to show cause, or contempt of a dissolution, annulment, or separate maintenance decree is brought on the grounds that a party to the decree is in default or contempt of the decree, and the court determines that the party is in default or contempt of the decree, the costs of the proceeding, including reasonable attorney’s fees, may be taxed against that party.
84 Acts, ch 1133, §2
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.