In re D.N.

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. The State appeals and the County cross-appeals. We affirm.

*826I. Background.

The parties stipulated to the material facts of this…