2017 Iowa Code
Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
Chapter 633 - PROBATE CODE
Section 633.230 - Notice in intestate estates.

Universal Citation: IA Code § 633.230 (2017)

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1 PROBATE CODE, §633.230 633.230 Notice in intestate estates. 1. In intestate matters, the administrator, as soon as letters are issued, shall cause to be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the estate is pending, and at any time during the pendency of administration that the administrator has knowledge of the name and address of a person believed to own or possess a claim which will not or may not be paid or otherwise satisfied during administration, provide by ordinary mail to each such claimant at the claimant’s last known address, a notice of appointment which shall be in substantially the following form: In the District Court of Iowa in and for .................... County. In the Estate of Probate No. ................ ...................., Deceased NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS To All Persons Interested in the Estate of ...................., Deceased, who died on or about .................... (date): You are hereby notified that on the ........ day of ............ (month), ............ (year), the undersigned was appointed administrator of the estate. Notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors having claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above-named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allowance, and, unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of the mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid), a claim is thereafter forever barred. Dated this ........ day of ............ (month), ............ (year) .................... Administrator of the estate .................... Address .................... Attorney for the administrator .................... Address Date of second publication ........ day of ............ (month), ............ (year) (Date to be inserted by publisher) 2. An action based upon the failure to give notice by mail required by this section, section 633.304 or 633.305, to heirs of a decedent or to persons known by the personal representative to own or possess a claim in any estate in which the personal representative was discharged prior to July 1, 1989, shall not be maintained in any court in this state unless commenced prior to July 1, 1991. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.230] 84 Acts, ch 1080, §1, 2; 89 Acts, ch 35, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1036, §1; 2000 Acts, ch 1058, §66; 2016 Acts, ch 1073, §170 Referred to in §590.1, §633A.3109, §633A.3111, §635.13 Subsection 1 stricken and rewritten Wed Feb 08 04:44:07 2017 Iowa Code 2017, Section 633.230 (43, 7)
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