June 23, 2025
David M. Repp, Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C., Des Moines, IA The Iowa Supreme Court has championed the cause of minorities on more than one occasion: slavery in In Re the Matter of Ralph (1839), allowing women the right to practice law (Arabella Mansfield – 1869), gay marriage in Varnum v. Brien (2009). Perhaps no one should be surprised by the Iowa […]
June 22, 2025
STATE OF IOWA V. RODNEY LEE BEAN AFFIRMS NEED FOR OVERSIGHT OF A REPRESENTATIVE UNDER POWER OF ATTORNEY SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 Margaret Van Houten, Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. A recent criminal case, State of Iowa v. Rodney Lee Bean, Court of Appeals of Iowa, No. 3-494/11-1828 (September 5, 2013), shows us how elderly individuals can […]
June 21, 2025
A couple I know used to spend their time on long car trips imagining they won the lottery. They would seriously discuss the right amount of money to leave to their children and then decide where to leave the rest. Once they had figured out how much to leave their children, they would pick charities […]
June 20, 2025
Everyone knows that farmland prices are at historic highs. The average per-acre price for Iowa farmland is $8300. That average is figured on both pasture land and crop land, so the average price is much higher for tillable ground. It is also much higher forIowa’s best land. Sales have been recorded for at least twice […]
June 19, 2025
WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WILL, THERE MAY BE CHAOS JANUARY 7, 2014 Nothing gives rise to a family fight as quickly as a family farm. Even if none of the children farm, they will have different views about how to deal with their farm inheritance. If two or […]
June 18, 2025
Breanna Young, Nelson Young & Braland Introduction The Medicare tax on net investment income is imposed under section 1411 of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 1411 was adopted on March 30, 2010 as part of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The section comprises the newly enacted Chapter 2A of the Code, […]
June 17, 2025
WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WILL, THERE MAY BE CHAOS When you go see a layer to prepare your Will, he or she will ask a series of important questions. Your Will is the place to answer those questions. If you don’t have a Will, there are no answers. […]
January 15, 2025
When something feels this smooth, you start wondering what the catch is. Here’s why there isn’t one.
January 15, 2025
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January 15, 2025
You’ve seen good themes, but have you met greatness? Here’s why this one stands out.