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Terms Used In Iowa Code 633.213

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
633.213 Appraisal.
Prior to the settlement of every intestate estate in which there is a surviving spouse, and in which appraisal has not been waived by the surviving spouse and all the heirs of the decedent, the court, upon application of the personal representative, the surviving spouse, or any of the heirs of the decedent, shall appoint three competent disinterested appraisers to appraise the estate and to make their report to the court, at the time as the court may direct by order, unless the court, after notice, finds further appraisal unnecessary. In the appraisement, the homestead, if any, shall be appraised separately.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12018; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §636.33; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.213]
84 Acts, ch 1067, §47
Referred to in §633.210, 633.214