Terms Used In Iowa Code 443.17

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
 In any action or proceeding, now pending or hereafter brought, to recover taxes upon property not listed or assessed for taxation during the lifetime of any decedent, it shall be presumed that any property, any evidence of ownership of property, and any evidence of a promise to pay, owned by a decedent at the date of the decedent’s death, had been acquired and owned by such decedent more than two years before the date of the decedent’s death; and the burden of proving that any such property had been acquired by such decedent less than two years before the date of the decedent’s death shall be upon the heirs, legatees, and legal representatives of any such decedent.