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Terms Used In Iowa Code 633.157

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Debts: includes liabilities of the decedent which survive, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise. See Iowa Code 633.3
  • Estate: means the real and personal property of either a decedent or a ward, and may also refer to the real and personal property of a trust described in section 633. See Iowa Code 633.3
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes personal representative, executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, and the trustee of any trust described in section 633. See Iowa Code 633.3
 Every fiduciary shall be liable for, and chargeable in the fiduciary‘s accounts with, all of the estate that comes into the fiduciary’s possession at any time, including all the income therefrom; but the fiduciary shall not be accountable for any debts due to the estate or other assets of the estate that remain uncollected without the fiduciary’s fault. The fiduciary shall not be entitled to profit from the increase in value of any asset of the estate, nor shall the fiduciary be chargeable with loss resulting, without the fiduciary’s fault, from the decrease in value or the destruction of any part of the estate, excepting, only to the extent of the fiduciary’s pro rata share in such gain or loss as one of the distributees of the estate.