Iowa Law School Continuing Legal Education

presents the 20th Anniversary Publication of

Kurtz on Iowa Estates

(3d Edition)

by

Sheldon F. Kurtz

On this twentieth anniversary of Kurtz on Iowa Estates, Iowa Law School Continuing Legal Education proudly announces the publication of the third edition of this highly respected work. Since the publication of the predecessor work, Kurtz and Reimer, Iowa Estates: Taxation and Administration and the first and second editions of Kurtz on Iowa Estates, this multi-volume work has become the Iowa lawyer's principal secondary source for the explanation and analysis of the Iowa Probate Code and the related federal and state tax rules applicable to decedents' estate. Kurtz on Iowa Estates is frequently cited by both the Court of Appeals and the Iowa Supreme Court as the authoritative work on Iowa probate law.

Since 1975 when the predecessor edition of Kurtz on Iowa Estates was first published, there have been notable changes in the Iowa Probate Code and the federal and state statutes applicable to the taxation of decedents and their estates. Additionally, there has been a significant overhaul of the federal income tax laws which apply to the taxation of estates. In this Third Edition of Kurtz on Iowa Estates all of these statutory changes as well as the important developments in Iowa and federal case law, including new materials relating to living wills and health care powers of attorney, are discussed and analyzed.

About the Author

Sheldon F. Kurtz is the Percy Bordwell Distinguished Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Iowa. He was Dean of the Florida State College of Law. He received his legal education at the Syracuse Law School where he was managing editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He practiced law in New York City for five years before coming to the Iowa Law School in 1973. In addition to the predecessor works previously described, he is the author of American Property Law (with Hovenkamp), Wills, Trusts and Future Interests (with McGovern & Rein), The Law of Property (with Boyer and Hovenkamp), and Closely Held Corporations in Business and Estate Planning (with Hood and Shors) and numerous articles relating to wills and trusts.

Table of Contents

Volume I:
1.Proceedings in the District Court
2.Pre-Probate Considerations
3.Intestate Succession and Administration
4.Probate of Wills
5.Settlement of Estates Without Present Administration
6.Small Estates Administration
7.Foreign Wills and Ancillary Administration
8.Family Rights
9.Collection of Testamentary Assets
10.Management of the Estate
11.Nonprobate Transfers
12.Dispositions of Property
13.Claims Against the Estate
14.Miscellaneous Proceedings Affecting the Personal Representative
15.Accountings and Distributions

Volume II:
16.Decedent's Return Procedure
17.Substantive Aspects of Decedent's Return
18.Federal Estate Tax–The Gross Estate
19.Federal Estate Tax–Deductions in Computing the Taxable Estate
20.Federal Estate Tax–Credits
21.Federal Estate Tax–Procedure
22.Generation Skipping Transfers
23.Iowa Inheritance, Estate, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes
24.Federal and State Income Taxation of Estates 








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