627.17 Sending claims out of state. Whoever, whether as principal, agent, or attorney, with intent to deprive a resident in good faith of the state of the benefit of the exemption laws thereof, sends a claim against suchresident and belonging to a resident, to another state for action, or causes action to be broughton such claim in another state, or assigns or transfers such claim to a nonresident of the state,with intent that action thereon be brought in the courts of another state, the action in eithercase being one which might have been brought in this state, and the property or debt sought tobe reached by such action being such as might, but for the exemptions laws of this state, havebeen reached by action in the courts of this state, shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor. [C97, §4018; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11770; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §627.17] Sat Dec 23 11:22:14 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 627.17 (15, 0)
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