Iowa § 633.281 Interest of witnesses

Iowa Statutes

§ 633.281 — Interest of witnesses

Iowa § 633.281

Title XVJUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES

Ch. 633PROBATE CODE

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Iowa Code § 633.281 (2026).

Text

No will is invalidated because attested by an interested witness; but any interested witness
shall, unless the will is also attested by two competent and disinterested witnesses, forfeit so

much of the provisions therein made for the interested witness as in the aggregate exceeds
in value, as of the date of the decedent’s death, that which the interested witness would have
received had the testator died intestate. No attesting witness is interested unless the witness
is devised or bequeathed some portion of the testator’s estate.

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No will is invalidated because attested by an interested witness; but any interested witness
shall, unless the will is also attested by two competent and disinterested witnesses, forfeit so

much of the provisions therein made for the interested witness as in the aggregate exceeds
in value, as of the date of the decedent’s death, that which the interested witness would have
received had the testator died intestate. No attesting witness is interested unless the witness
is devised or bequeathed some portion of the testator’s estate.

Legislative History

[C51, §1282, 1283; R60, §2314, 2315; C73, §2327, 2328; C97, §3275; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11854; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §633.9; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.281]