2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.133 - APPEAL.

        232.133  APPEAL.
         1.  An interested party aggrieved by an order or decree of the
      juvenile court may appeal from the court for review of questions of
      law or fact.  However, an order adjudicating a child to have
      committed a delinquent act, entered pursuant to section 232.47, shall
      not be appealed until the court enters a corresponding dispositional
      order pursuant to section 232.52.  An appeal that affects the custody
      of a child shall be heard at the earliest practicable time.
         2.  Except for appeals from orders entered in child in need of
      assistance proceedings or orders entered pursuant to section 232.117,
      appellate procedures shall be governed by the same provisions
      applicable to appeals from the district court.  The supreme court may
      prescribe rules to expedite the resolution of appeals from orders
      entered in child in need of assistance proceedings or orders entered
      pursuant to section 232.117.
         3.  The pendency of an appeal or application therefor shall not
      suspend the order of the juvenile court regarding a child and shall
      not discharge the child from the custody of the court or the agency,
      association, facility, institution or person to whom the court has
      transferred legal custody unless the appellate court otherwise orders
      on application of an appellant.
         4.  If the appellate court does not dismiss the proceedings and
      discharge the child, the appellate court shall affirm or modify the
      order of the juvenile court and remand the child to the jurisdiction
      of the juvenile court for disposition not inconsistent with the
      appellate court's finding on the appeal.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 232.58; C79, 81, § 232.133] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1186, § 12; 2001 Acts, ch 117, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 25,
      §1; 2006 Acts, ch 1129, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 126, §45