Mathison v. Young

*478McCORMICK, J.

The question here concerns the legal standard for determining reasonable compensation for an attorney appointed as counsel for indigent parents or children in juvenile cases. Plaintiff Jane M. Mathison brought these consolidated certiorari actions to challenge fee orders entered for her services in four juvenile proceedings by defendant District Associate Judge Gordon Speights Young. We find that defendant employed an incorrect legal standard in the orders and therefore sustain the writs and remand the cases for a new determination of fees.

Section 232.141(1) of the Iowa Code…