1. Venue for child in need of assistance proceedings shall be in the judicial district where the child is found or in the judicial district of the child’s residence.
2. The court may transfer any child in need of assistance proceedings brought under this chapter to the juvenile court of any county having venue at any stage in the proceedings as follows:
a. When it appears that the best interests of the child or the convenience of the proceedings shall be served by a transfer, the court may transfer the case to the court of the county of the child’s residence.
b. With the consent of the receiving court, the court may transfer the case to the court of the county where the child is found.
3. The court shall transfer the case by ordering the transfer and a continuance and by forwarding to the clerk of the receiving court a certified copy of all papers filed together with an order of transfer. The judge of the receiving court may accept the filings of the transferring court or may direct the filing of a new petition and hear the case anew. [C71, 73, 75, 77, §232.68 – 232.70; C79, 81, §232.62] Referred to in §232.110, 232.123\n\n 232.63 through 232.66 Reserved.\n\n PART 2 CHILD ABUSE REPORTING, ASSESSMENT, AND REHABILITATION Referred to in §135L.3, 232E.2, 235A.13\n\n 232.67 Legislative findings — purpose and policy. Children in this state are in urgent need of protection from abuse. It is the purpose and policy of subchapter III to provide the greatest possible protection to victims or potential \n Tue Dec 09 22:21:33 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 232 (92, 1) 47 JUVENILE JUSTICE, §232.68\n\nvictims of abuse through encouraging the increased reporting of suspected cases of abuse, ensuring the thorough and prompt assessment of these reports, and providing rehabilitative services, where appropriate and whenever possible to abused children and their families which will stabilize the home environment so that the family can remain intact without further danger to the child. The state recognizes removing a child from the child’s family will cause the child harm and that the harm caused by a child’s removal must be weighed against the potential harm in allowing a child to remain with the child’s family. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §235A.1; C79, 81, §232.67] 97 Acts, ch 35, §3, 25; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §94; 2022 Acts, ch 1098, §19 Referred to in §232.68 \n
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
12
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1967–2022 · leading case:
Mallory v. Paradise, 173 N.W.2d 264 (Iowa 1969).
Mallory v. Paradise, 173 N.W.2d 264 (Iowa 1969).
· cites it 28× “Section 232.62 (adopted in 1965) legislatively approved our rulings in Reed and Ethridge and is relied on here to support the trial court's refusal to refer petitioner Mallory to juvenile court.”
State v. Stueve, 150 N.W.2d 597 (Iowa 1967).
· cites it 24× “" This provision seems to reject the idea that the jurisdiction of the juvenile court is to be primary or exclusive in such cases.”
State v. Lyle, 854 N.W.2d 378 (Iowa 2014).
· cites it 2× “§ 232.62(2)(a) (permitting the district court to transfer venue for CINA proceedings for “the best interests of the child” among other reasons); id.”
Ashby v. Haugh, 152 N.W.2d 228 (Iowa 1967).
· cites it 8× “The ruling (filed the day the evidence was concluded and the case argued) makes no mention of section 232.62, infra. The ruling states four times, in effect, that the fact plaintiff was not treated as a juvenile was of his own making in wilfully falsifying his age and that his…”
State v. Henderson, 199 N.W.2d 111 (Iowa 1972).
· cites it 4× “Upon the above summarized evidence, the court determined the child was both dependent and delinquent, and that his best interests required his placement in the Annie Wittenmyer Home.”
In the Interest of Clay, 246 N.W.2d 263 (Iowa 1976).
· cites it 2× “See Code § 232.62. The State now urges Clay’s appeal from the transfer order be dismissed.”
Stuart v. State Ex Rel. Jannings, 253 N.W.2d 910 (Iowa 1977).
· cites it 2× “142, § 10, states: “The juvenile court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction, only, in proceedings concerning any child alleged to be delinquent, or a child alleged to be in need of assistance, and in proceedings for termination of parental rights under sections 232.”
In the Interest of J.W., Minor Child, L.B., Mother (Iowa Ct. App. 2017).
· cites it 8× “” Iowa Code § 232.62 (1) (2016). The juvenile court may transfer a proceeding “to the juvenile court of any county having venue at any stage in the proceedings” for two reasons.”
State v. Ristau, 305 N.W.2d 499 (Iowa 1981).
· cites it 2× “It is unnecessary to determine whether good cause was shown because even without a continuance, the proceedings were suspended by the transfer to juvenile court which tolled the running of the limitation period.”
In the Interest of E.D., Minor Child (Iowa Ct. App. 2022).
· cites it 2× “See Iowa Code § 232.62 (3). “The judge of the receiving court may accept the filings of the transferring court or may direct the filing of a new petition and hear the case anew.”
State of Iowa v. Andre Jerome Lyle Jr. (Iowa 2014).
· cites it 2× “§ 232.62(2)(a) (permitting the district court to transfer venue for CINA proceedings for “the best interests of the child” among other reasons); id.”
— Iowa Code § 232.62(2)(a) — 3 cases
State v. Lyle, 854 N.W.2d 378 (Iowa 2014).
“§ 232.62(2)(a) (permitting the district court to transfer venue for CINA proceedings for “the best interests of the child” among other reasons); id.”
State of Iowa v. Andre Jerome Lyle Jr. (Iowa 2014).
“§ 232.62(2)(a) (permitting the district court to transfer venue for CINA proceedings for “the best interests of the child” among other reasons); id.”
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