§ 633.32 — Delinquent inventories and reports

Iowa § 633.32

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 633: PROBATE CODE

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1. On June 1 and December 1 of each year, the clerk shall notify the fiduciary and the
fiduciary’sattorneyofanydelinquentinventoriesorreportsduebylawinanypendingestate,
trust, guardianship, or conservatorship, and that unless such delinquent inventory or report
is filed within sixty days thereafter, the matter shall be reported to the presiding judge. If the
delinquent inventory is not filed within the time so specified, the fiduciary will be subject to
removal under the provisions of section 633.65 of this Code.
2. On August 1 and February 1 of each year, the clerk shall report to the presiding judge
all delinquent inventories or reports in estates, trusts, guardianships, or conservatorships on
which such notice has been given and no report or inventory has been filed in response to
the notice.
3. The reports required by this section shall indicate thereon all cases in which the
attorney, or the fiduciary or the fiduciary’s surety, is deceased, or insolvent, or cannot be
found, or has removed from this state, and where it is shown by said reports, or it otherwise
appears that there are no known assets belonging to the estate, the judge may, on the judge’s
own motion, order said estate closed, and may, in the judge’s discretion, waive costs, or,
on reasonable notice to the fiduciary, tax costs against the fiduciary. Such order shall not
operate to prevent the reopening of such estate.

Legislative History

[C97, §3269; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11845; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §632.14; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.32]