Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 633.281 (2026)

Interest of witnesses

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No will is invalidated because attested by an interested witness; but any interested witness shall, unless the will is also attested by two competent and disinterested witnesses, forfeit so

Tue Dec 09 21:59:21 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 633 (154, 4) §633.281, PROBATE CODE 64\n\nmuch of the provisions therein made for the interested witness as in the aggregate exceeds in value, as of the date of the decedent’s death, that which the interested witness would have received had the testator died intestate. No attesting witness is interested unless the witness is devised or bequeathed some portion of the testator’s estate. [C51, §1282, 1283; R60, §2314, 2315; C73, §2327, 2328; C97, §3275; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11854; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §633.9; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.281]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1979–1979 · leading case: Comm. on Prof'l Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. Behnke, 276 N.W.2d 838 (Iowa 1979).

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Comm. on Prof'l Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. Behnke, 276 N.W.2d 838 (Iowa 1979). “See § 633.281, The Code. The record also discloses it was apparent Nellie probably was going to survive Eilert and would be beneficiary of all his property under the will respondent drafted.”

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