MATTER OF D.N.

No. 93-985.

522 N.W.2d 824 (1994)

In the Matter of D.N., Alleged to be Seriously Mentally Impaired, Decatur County, Iowa, Appellee, State of Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 19, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., John M. Parmeter, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard E. Ramsay, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Carlton G. Salmons of Austin, Gaudineer, Austin, Salmons & Swanson, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, CARTER, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


ANDREASEN, Justice.

The primary issue in this appeal is whether an individual who was removed from this state for more than one year to receive care and treatment in another state lost his county of legal settlement. The district court held the individual lost his legal settlement in Decatur County when he removed to a community-based provider in Missouri for five and one-half years, and therefore the State is liable for the cost of his care after he returned to Iowa...

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