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IN RE ESTATE OF GRAF DROSTE ZU VISCHERING

No. 08-1888.

782 N.W.2d 141 (2010)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Clemens GRAF DROSTE ZU VISCHERING, Deceased. J. Dixon Tews, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric G. Hoch and Jerry P. Alt of Finley, Alt, Smith, Scharnberg, Craig, Hilmes & Gaffney, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Michael M. Sellers of Sellers, Heraldson and Binford, Des Moines, for appellee.

BAKER, Justice.

In proceedings to reopen an estate, the executor appeals from an interlocutory order in which the district court agreed with petitioners that it was unnecessary for them to comply with international treaty requirements for service abroad in serving process on the estate beneficiary, who resides in Germany. We find the district court erred in ruling that service of process on the estate beneficiary did not require compliance with the Hague Service Convention...

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