Iowa § 237.22 - 237.22 Case permanency plan.
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§ 237.22. 237.22 Case permanency plan.
The agency responsible for the placement of the child shall create a case permanency plan. In addition to requirements stated in section 232.2, subsection 6, the plan shall also include but not be limited to: 1. Time frames to meet the stated permanency goal and short-term objectives. 2. The care and services that will be provided to the child, biological parents, the child’s fictive kin, and foster parents. 3. The efforts to place the child with a relative or fictive kin. 4. The rationale for an out-of-state placement, and the efforts to prevent such placement, if the child has been placed out of state. 84 Acts, ch 1279, §33; 88 Acts, ch 1233, §18, 19; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §7; 2022 Acts, ch 1055, §14 Referred to in §237.20 Section not amended; internal reference change applied Thu Dec 11 19:12:23 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 237.22 (22, 1)
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Section 237.22 ("237.22 Case permanency plan.") is part of the Iowa Code, the codified statutory law of Iowa. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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