2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 4 - Probate - Fiduciaries
CHAPTER 633 - PROBATE CODE
633.535 - PERSON CAUSING DEATH.

        633.535  PERSON CAUSING DEATH.
         1.  A person who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or
      procures the death of another shall not receive any property,
      benefit, or other interest by reason of the death as an heir,
      distributee, beneficiary, appointee, or in any other capacity whether
      the property, benefit, or other interest passed under any form of
      title registration, testamentary or nontestamentary instrument,
      intestacy, renunciation, or any other circumstance.  The property,
      benefit, or other interest shall pass as if the person causing death
      died before the decedent.
         2.  A joint tenant who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or
      procures the death of another joint tenant which affects their
      interests so that the share of the decedent passes as the decedent's
      property has no rights by survivorship.  This provision applies to
      joint tenancies and tenancies by the entireties in real and personal
      property, joint and multiple-party accounts in banks, savings and
      loan associations, credit unions, and other institutions, and any
      other form of co-ownership with survivorship rights.
         3.  A named beneficiary of a bond, life insurance policy, or any
      other contractual arrangement who intentionally and unjustifiably
      causes or procures the death of the principal obligee or person upon
      whose life the policy is issued or whose death generates the benefits
      under any other contractual arrangement is not entitled to any
      benefit under the bond, policy, or other contractual arrangement, and
      the benefits become payable as though the person causing death had
      predeceased the decedent.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C97, § 3386; S13, § 3386; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12032; C46,
      50, 54, 58, 62, § 636.47; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 633.535] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         87 Acts, ch 9, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1134, § 111
         Referred to in § 633.536, 633.537