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Terms Used In Iowa Code 637.420

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
637.420 Insubstantial allocations not required.
1. If a trustee determines that an allocation between principal and income required by
sections 637.421 through 637.424 or § 637.427 is insubstantial, the trustee may allocate the entire receipt to principal.
2. An allocation is presumed to be insubstantial if either of the following would be true if an allocation was made:
a. The amount of the allocation would increase or decrease an accounting period’s net income, as determined before the allocation, by less than ten percent.
b. The value of the asset producing the receipt for which the allocation would be made is less than ten percent of the total value of the trust’s assets at the beginning of the accounting period.
99 Acts, ch 124, §16
Referred to in §637.424