§ 633B.110 — Termination — power of attorney or agent authority

Iowa § 633B.110

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 633B: POWERS OF ATTORNEY

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1. A power of attorney terminates when any of the following occurs:
a. The principal dies.
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b. The principal becomes incapacitated, if the power of attorney is not durable.
c. The principal revokes the power of attorney.
d. The power of attorney provides that it terminates.
e. The purpose of the power of attorney is accomplished.
f. The principal revokes the agent’s authority or the agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or
resigns, and the power of attorney does not provide for another agent to act under the power
of attorney.
2. An agent’s authority terminates when any of the following occurs:
a. The principal revokes the authority.
b. The agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or resigns.
c. An action is filed for the dissolution or annulment of the agent’s marriage to the
principal or for their legal separation, unless the power of attorney otherwise provides.
d. The power of attorney terminates.
e. The agent is named as having abused the principal in a founded dependent adult abuse
report.
f. The agent is convicted of dependent adult abuse for having abused the principal.
3. Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, an agent’s authority is exercisable
until the agent’s authority terminates under subsection 2, notwithstanding a lapse of time
since the execution of the power of attorney.
4. Termination of a power of attorney or an agent’s authority under this section is not
effective as to the agent or another person that, without actual knowledge of the termination,
acts in good faith under the power of attorney. An act so performed, unless otherwise invalid
or unenforceable, binds the principal and the principal’s successors in interest.
5. Incapacity of the principal of a power of attorney that is not durable does not revoke
or terminate the power of attorney as to an agent or other person that, without actual
knowledge of the incapacity, acts in good faith under the power of attorney. An act so
performed, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, binds the principal and the principal’s
successors in interest.
6. Except as provided in section 633B.103, the execution of a general or plenary power of
attorney revokes all general or plenary powers of attorney previously executed in this state
by the principal, but does not revoke a power of attorney limited to a specific and identifiable
action or transaction, which action or transaction is still capable of performance but has not
yet been fully accomplished by the agent.