Iowa § 561.4 Selecting — platting

Iowa Statutes

§ 561.4 — Selecting — platting

Iowa § 561.4

Title XIVPROPERTY

Ch. 561HOMESTEAD

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Iowa Code § 561.4 (2026).

Text

The owner, husband or wife, or a single person, may select the homestead and cause it to
be platted, but a failure to do so shall not render the same liable when it otherwise would not
be, and a selection by the owner shall control. When selected, it shall be designated by a legal
description, or if impossible it shall be marked off by permanent, visible monuments, and the
description shall give the direction and distance of the starting point from some corner of the

dwelling, which description, with the plat, shall be filed and recorded by the recorder of the
proper county in the manner provided in sections 558.49 and 558.52.

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The owner, husband or wife, or a single person, may select the homestead and cause it to
be platted, but a failure to do so shall not render the same liable when it otherwise would not
be, and a selection by the owner shall control. When selected, it shall be designated by a legal
description, or if impossible it shall be marked off by permanent, visible monuments, and the
description shall give the direction and distance of the starting point from some corner of the

dwelling, which description, with the plat, shall be filed and recorded by the recorder of the
proper county in the manner provided in sections 558.49 and 558.52.

Legislative History

[C51, §1254, 1255; R60, §2286, 2287; C73, §1998, 1999; C97, §2979; S13, §2979; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10138; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §561.4]