1. If the putative father fails to respond to the initial notice within twenty days after the date of service of the notice or fails to appear at a conference pursuant to section 252F.3 on the scheduled date of the conference, and paternity has not been contested and the putative father fails to timely request a court hearing on the issue of support, the administrator shall enter an order against the putative father, declaring the putative father to be the legal father of the child or children involved and assessing any accrued and accruing child support obligation pursuant to the guidelines established under section 598.21, subsection 4, and medical support pursuant to chapter 252E, against the father.
2. If paternity is contested pursuant to section 252F.3, subsection 6, and the party contesting paternity fails to appear for a paternity test and fails to request a rescheduling pursuant to section 252F.3, or fails to appear for both the initial and the rescheduled paternity tests and the putative father fails to timely request a court hearing on the issue of support, the administrator shall enter an order against the putative father declaring the putative father to be the legal father of the child or children involved and assessing any accrued and accruing child support obligation pursuant to the guidelines established under section 598.21, subsection 4, and medical support pursuant to chapter 252E, against the father.
3. If the putative father appears at a conference pursuant to section 252F.3, and paternity is not contested, and the putative father fails to timely request a court hearing on the issue of support, the administrator shall enter an order against the putative father after the second notice has been sent declaring the putative father to be the legal father of the child or children involved and assessing any accrued and accruing child support obligation pursuant to the guidelines established under section 598.21, subsection 4, and medical support pursuant to chapter 252E against the father.
4. If paternity was contested and paternity testing was performed and the putative father was not excluded, if the test results indicate that the probability of the putative father's paternity is ninety-five percent or greater, if the test results are not timely challenged, and if the putative father fails to timely request a court hearing on the issue of support, the administrator shall enter an order against the putative father declaring the putative father to be the legal father of the child or children involved and assessing any accrued and accruing child support obligation pursuant to the guidelines established under section 598.21, subsection 4, and medical support pursuant to chapter 252E, against the father.
5. The administrator shall establish a support obligation under this section based upon the best information available to the unit and pursuant to section 252B.7A.
6. The order shall contain all of the following:
a. A declaration of paternity.
b. The amount of monthly support to be paid, with direction as to the manner of payment.
c. The amount of accrued support.
d. The name of the custodial parent or caretaker.
e. The name and birth date of the child or children to whom the order applies.
f. A statement that property of the father is subject to income withholding, liens, garnishment, tax offset, and other collection actions.
g. The medical support required pursuant to chapter 598 and chapter 252E.
h. A statement that the father is required to inform the child support recovery unit, on a continuing basis, of the name and address of the father's current employer, whether the father has access to health insurance coverage through employment or at reasonable cost through other sources, and if so, the health insurance policy information.
i. If paternity was contested, the amount of any judgment assessed to the father for costs of paternity tests conducted pursuant to this chapter.
7. If paternity is not contested but the putative father does wish to challenge the issues of child or medical support, the administrator shall enter an order establishing paternity and reserving the issues of child or medical support for determination by the district court.
93 Acts, ch 79, §17; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §33
Referred to in § 252F.3
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