2015 Iowa Code
TITLE XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
SUBTITLE 4 - PROBATE — FIDUCIARIES
CHAPTER 633 - PROBATE CODE
Section 633.31 - Calendar — fees in probate.


1.  The clerk shall keep a court calendar, and enter thereon such matters as the court may prescribe.

2.  The clerk shall charge and collect the following fees in connection with probate matters, which shall be deposited in the account established under section 602.8108:

a.  For services performed in short form probates pursuant to sections 450.22 and 450.44$15.00

b.  For services performed in probate ofwill without administration 15.00

c.  For filing and indexing a transcript50.00

d.  For taking and approving a bond, or the sureties on a bond 20.00

e.  For entering a rule or order 10.00

f.  For certificate and seal 10.00

g.  For making a complete record wherereal estate is sold per 100 words  .20

h.  For making a transcript or copies of orders or records filed inthe clerk’s office per 100 words  .50

i.  For certifying change of title 20.00

j.  For issuing commission toappraisers 2.00

k.  For other services performed in the settlement of the estate of any decedent, minor, person with mental illness, or other persons laboring under legal disability, except where actions are brought by the administrator, guardian, trustee, or person acting in a representative capacity or against that person, or as may be otherwise provided herein, where the value of the personal property and real estate of such a person falls within the following indicated amounts, the fee opposite such amount shall be charged.
(1)  Up to $3,000.00 5.00
(2)  3,000.00 to 5,000.00 10.00
(3)  5,000.00 to 7,000.00 15.00
(4)  7,000.00 to 10,000.00 20.00
(5)  10,000.00 to 15,000.00 25.00
(6)  15,000.00 to 25,000.00 30.00
(7)  For each additional $25,000.00 or major fraction thereof 50.00

l.  For services performed in small estate administration 15.00

3.  The fee set forth in subsection 2, paragraph “k”, shall not be charged on any property transferred to a testamentary trust from an estate that has been administered in this state and for which court costs have been assessed and paid.
[C97, §3269; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11844; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §632.13; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.31]

1983 Acts, ch 186, §10124,10201; 1988 Acts, ch 1258, §3; 1989 Acts, ch 207, §2; 1994 Acts, ch 1074, §12,13; 1996 Acts, ch 1129, §113; 1999 Acts, ch 56, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1120, §7; 2007 Acts, ch 180, §3; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §64,72

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