Rule Text
If a court enters an order in an Iowa Code chapter 232 CINA, termination of parental rights, or post-termination proceeding, the order shall contain a written notice that an appeal by an aggrieved party must be taken pursuant to Iowa R. App. P. 6.101(1)(a), the notice of appeal must be filed within 15 days of the entry of the order, and a petition on appeal must be filed within 15 days thereafter. The absence of such language from an order will not affect the time for filing a notice of appeal or a petition on appeal.
Amendment history: Report August 31, 2001, effective January 1, 2002; November 9, 2001, effective February 15, 2002; April 21, 2003, effective July 1, 2003; October 31, 2008, effective January 1, 2009
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
When a judge issues an order in a child welfare case (called a CINA case), a termination of parental rights case, or a case that happens after parental rights have already been ended, the order has to include a written notice about appeal rights. This notice tells anyone who disagrees with the decision how much time they have to appeal it. Specifically, they must file a notice of appeal within 15 days after the order is entered, and then file a follow-up document called a petition on appeal within another 15 days after that.
Even if the judge forgets to include this notice in the order, it does not change the deadlines. The 15-day time limits still apply whether or not the written notice is actually in the order. This means people involved in these cases need to know their appeal deadlines on their own and cannot assume they get extra time just because the court left out the reminder.
