1. An amount received as interest, whether determined at a fixed, variable, or floating rate, on an obligation to pay money to the trustee, including an amount received as consideration for prepaying principal, must be allocated to income without any provision for amortization of premium.

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Terms Used In Iowa Code 637.412

  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Income: means money or property a fiduciary receives as the current return from a principal asset. See Iowa Code 637.102
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates. See Iowa Code 637.102
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See Iowa Code 637.102
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. An amount received from the sale, redemption, or other disposition of an obligation to pay money to the trustee more than one year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, including an obligation whose purchase price or value when it is acquired is less than its value at maturity, must be allocated to principal. If the obligation matures within one year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, an amount received in excess of its purchase price or its value when acquired by the trust must be allocated to income.
 3. This section does not apply to obligations to which sections 637.421 through 637.424, 637.426, and 637.427 apply.