State Ex Rel. Palmer v. Hancock County

LARSON, Justice.

"Lloyd B.” is a mentally retarded adult presently living in a care facility in Winnebago County, Iowa. The district court concluded in this declaratory judgment action that under Iowa Code section 222.60(2) (1987), Lloyd’s care must be provided by the State because he had no “legal settlement” within the state. The State appealed, claiming that Lloyd’s legal settlement is Hancock County, which is required by Iowa Code section 222.60(1) to pay for his care. We affirm.

Lloyd was born in 1925, and at the age of twenty-one, he contracted a disease which left him mentally retarded…