633.31 - CALENDAR -- FEES IN PROBATE.
633.31 CALENDAR -- FEES IN PROBATE. 1. The clerk shall keep a court calendar, and enter thereon such matters as the court may prescribe. 2. The clerk shall charge and collect the following fees in connection with probate matters, which shall be deposited in the account established under section 602.8108: a. For services performed in short form probates pursuant to sections 450.22 and 450.44 .................... $ 15.00 b. For services performed in probate of will without administration .................... 15.00 c. For filing and indexing a transcript 50.00 d. For taking and approving a bond, or the sureties on a bond .................... 20.00 e. For entering a rule or order .................... 10.00 f. For certificate and seal .................... 10.00 g. For making a complete record where real estate is sold .................... per 100 words .................... .20 h. For making a transcript or copies of orders or records filed in the clerk's office .................... per 100 words .................... .50 i. For certifying change of title .................... 20.00 j. For issuing commission to appraisers .................... 2.00 k. For other services performed in the settlement of the estate of any decedent, minor, person with mental illness, or other persons laboring under legal disability, except where actions are brought by the administrator, guardian, trustee, or person acting in a representative capacity or against that person, or as may be otherwise provided herein, where the value of the personal property and real estate of such a person falls within the following indicated amounts, the fee opposite such amount shall be charged. (1) Up to $3,000.00 .................... 5.00 (2) 3,000.00 to 5,000.00 .................... 10.00 (3) 5,000.00 to 7,000.00 .................... 15.00 (4) 7,000.00 to 10,000.00 .................... 20.00 (5) 10,000.00 to 15,000.00 .................... 25.00 (6) 15,000.00 to 25,000.00 .................... 30.00 (7) For each additional $25,000.00 or major fraction thereof .................... 50.00 l. For services performed in small estate administration .................... 15.00 3. The fee set forth in subsection 2, paragraph "k", shall not be charged on any property transferred to a testamentary trust from an estate that has been administered in this state and for which court costs have been assessed and paid.
Section History: Early Form [C97, § 3269; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11844; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 632.13; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 633.31]
Section History: Recent Form 83 Acts, ch 186, § 10124, 10201; 88 Acts, ch 1258, §3; 89 Acts, ch 207, §2; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §12, 13; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113; 99 Acts, ch 56, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1120, §7; 2007 Acts, ch 180, §3; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §64, 72