In addition to the services enumerated in section 252B.5, the unit may provide the following services in the case of a dependent child for whom public assistance is being provided:
1. Represent the child in obtaining a support order necessary to meet the child's needs or in enforcing a similar order previously entered.
2. Appear as a friend of the court in dissolution of marriage and separate maintenance proceedings, or proceedings supplemental thereto, when either or both of the parties to the proceedings are receiving public assistance, for the purpose of advising the court of the financial interest of the state in the proceeding.
3. Appear on behalf of the state for the purpose of facilitating the modification of support awards consistent with guidelines established pursuant to section 598.21, subsection 4 and the federal Family Support Act of 1988. The unit shall not otherwise participate in the proceeding.
4. If public assistance has been applied for or granted on behalf of a child of parents who are legally separated or whose marriage has been legally dissolved, the unit may apply to the district court for a court order directing either or both parents to show cause for the following:
a. Why an order of support for the child should not be entered, or
b. Why the parent should not be held in contempt for failure to comply with a support order previously entered.
5. Initiate necessary civil proceedings to recover from the parent of a child, money expended by the state in providing public assistance or services to the child, including support collection services.
[C77, 79, 81, § 252B.6]
83 Acts, ch 153, § 17; 90 Acts, ch 1224, § 6, 7
Referred to in § 252B.1, 252B.2, 252B.9
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