2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 4 - Probate - Fiduciaries
CHAPTER 633 - PROBATE CODE
633.271 - EFFECT OF DIVORCE OR DISSOLUTION.

        633.271  EFFECT OF DIVORCE OR DISSOLUTION.
         1.  If after making a will the testator is divorced or the
      testator's marriage is dissolved, all provisions in the will in favor
      of the testator's spouse or of a relative of the testator's spouse,
      including but not limited to dispositions, appointments of property,
      and nominations to serve in any fiduciary or representative capacity,
      are revoked by the divorce or dissolution of marriage, unless the
      will provides otherwise.
         2.  Unless the will provides otherwise, in the event the testator
      and spouse remarry each other, the provisions of the will revoked by
      the divorce or dissolution of marriage shall be reinstated unless
      otherwise revoked by the testator, except for provisions in favor of
      a person who died prior to the remarriage which shall not be
      reinstated.
         3.  For the purposes of this section, "relative of the
      testator's spouse" means a person who is related to the divorced
      testator's former spouse by blood, adoption, or affinity, and who,
      subsequent to a divorce or dissolution of marriage, ceased to be
      related to the testator by blood, adoption, or affinity.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 633.271] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2000 Acts, ch 1150, §3; 2005 Acts, ch 38, §26