Relating to payment of reasonable attorney fees for contempt relative to a dissolution of marriage proceeding

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 20, 2025
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   Done: Senate committeeMarch 5, 2025
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   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 19, 202547–0
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill allows a court that finds a person has willfully disobeyed a temporary order or final decree in a dissolution of marriage proceeding to direct the person to pay the reasonable attorney fees incurred by a party as a result of the person’s actions constituting contempt.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named February 20, 2025. On March 3, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Sen. David D. Rowley REmail
• Sen. Julian B. Garrett R
• Sen. Izaah Knox DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§598.23

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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