Iowa Code 637.413 – Insurance policies and similar contracts
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1. Proceeds from a life insurance policy whose beneficiary is the trust or its trustee or a policy that insures the trust or its trustee against loss for the damage or destruction of, or loss of title to, a principal asset must be allocated to principal. Dividends received from an insurance policy and the proceeds of any other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary must also be allocated to principal.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 637.413
- 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
- Beneficiary: includes , in the case of a decedent's estate, an heir, legatee, and devisee, and, in the case of a trust, an income beneficiary and a remainder beneficiary. See Iowa Code 637.102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Income: means money or property a fiduciary receives as the current return from a principal asset. See Iowa Code 637.102
- Income beneficiary: means a person to whom a trust's net income is or may be payable. See Iowa Code 637.102
- 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
2. Insurance proceeds must be allocated to income if they are from a policy that insures the trustee against the loss of occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, the loss of income, or, subject to section 637.403, the loss of profits from a business.
3. This section does not apply to a contract to which section 637.421 applies.