2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 631 - SMALL CLAIMS
631.12 - ENTRY OF JUDGMENT -- SETTING ASIDE DEFAULT JUDGMENT.

        631.12  ENTRY OF JUDGMENT -- SETTING ASIDE DEFAULT
      JUDGMENT.
         The clerk shall immediately enter the judgment in the small claims
      docket and district court lien book, without recording.  Such relief
      shall be granted as is appropriate.  Upon entering judgment, the
      court may provide for installment payments to be made directly by the
      party obligated to the party entitled thereto; and in such event
      execution shall not issue as long as such payments are made but
      execution shall issue for the full unpaid balance of the judgment
      upon the filing of an affidavit of default.  When entered on the
      small claims docket and district court lien book, a small claims
      judgment shall constitute a lien to the same extent as regular
      judgments entered on the district court judgment docket and lien
      book; but if a small claims judgment requires installment payments,
      it shall not be enforceable until an affidavit of default is filed.
         A defendant may move to set aside a default judgment in the manner
      provided for doing so in district court by rule of civil procedure
      1.977.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 631.12] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         84 Acts, ch 1322, § 5; 99 Acts, ch 144, §11