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Terms Used In Iowa Code 633A.2305

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
633A.2305 Discretionary trusts — effect of standard.
1. Whether or not a trust contains a spendthrift provision, a creditor or assignee of a beneficiary shall not compel a distribution that is subject to the trustee‘s discretion, even if any of the following occur:
a. The discretion is expressed in the form of a standard of distribution.
b. The trustee has abused its discretion.
2. This section shall not apply to a creditor of a beneficiary or to a creditor of a deceased beneficiary enforcing an interest in a trust, if any, given to a beneficiary by the trust instrument.
2008 Acts, ch 1119, §25
Referred to in §633A.2301