2009 Iowa Code
Title 14 - Property
Subtitle 2 - Real Property - Gifts
CHAPTER 561 - HOMESTEAD
561.16 - EXEMPTION.

        561.16  EXEMPTION.
         The homestead of every person is exempt from judicial sale where
      there is no special declaration of statute to the contrary.  Persons
      who reside together as a single household unit are entitled to claim
      in the aggregate only one homestead to be exempt from judicial sale.
      A single person may claim only one homestead to be exempt from
      judicial sale.  For purposes of this section, "household unit"
      means all persons of whatever ages, whether or not related, who
      habitually reside together in the same household as a group.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 1245; R60, § 2277; C73, § 1988; C97, § 2972, 2973; C24,
      27, 31, 35, 39, § 10150; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
      79, 81, § 561.16; 81 Acts, ch 182, § 1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         87 Acts, ch 116, §3
         Referred to in § 64.15, 64.15A, 809A.4