- 1. Any biological parent who chooses to identify the other biological parent and who knowingly and intentionally identifies a person who is not the other biological parent in the written release of custody or in any other document related to the termination of parental rights proceedings is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
- 2. Any person who signs or accepts a release of custody under section 600A.4 prior to the expiration of the seventy-two-hour period required is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
3.
a. All of the following are prohibited practices regarding a proceeding under this chapter:
- (1) The provision of termination of parental rights, child placement, or adoption services to any biological or adoptive parent by any person other than an adoption service provider or the department.
- (2) The charging of a fee by an adoption service provider that is more than the usual and necessary fee commensurate with the services rendered.
- (3) The facilitation, encouragement, or advisement of adoptive parents by an adoption service provider to provide any thing of value beyond those expenditures allowed pursuant to section 600A.6D.
- (4) The knowing encouragement or solicitation of payment of allowable expenses or provision of anything of value beyond those expenditures allowed pursuant to section 600A.6D, by a person falsely representing that a child may be available for adoption with the intent to defraud the other person.
- b. A person who commits a prohibited practice under this subsection is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for the first violation and a class “C” felony for any second or subsequent violation.
Similar provisions, see §600.9A, 714.8(21)
94 Acts, ch 1174, §21, 22; 2017 Acts, ch 113, §23