2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.118 - REMOVAL OF GUARDIAN.

        232.118  REMOVAL OF GUARDIAN.
         1.  Upon application of an interested party or upon the court's
      own motion, the court having jurisdiction of the child may, after
      notice to the parties and a hearing, remove a court-appointed
      guardian and appoint a guardian in accordance with the provisions of
      section 232.117, subsection 3.
         2.  A child fourteen years of age or older who has not been
      adopted but who is placed in a satisfactory foster home may, with the
      consent of the foster parents, join with the guardian appointed by
      the court in an application to the court to remove the existing
      guardian and appoint the foster parents as guardians of the child.
         3.  The authority of a guardian appointed by the court terminates
      when the child reaches the age of majority or is adopted.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, § 232.116; C81, § 232.118] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1134, §53