MATTER OF ESTATE OF GANTNER

No. 16-1028.

893 N.W.2d 896 (2017)

In the MATTER OF the ESTATE OF Joseph C. GANTNER III, Deceased. Rachel Gantner, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin M. Lange of Swisher & Cohrt, P.L.C., Independence, for appellant.

Abbe M. Stensland and Crystal R. Pound of Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC, Cedar Rapids, for appellees.


This case requires us to determine whether a decedent's individual retirement accounts (IRAs) may be used to pay an allowance to a surviving spouse who was not a beneficiary of those IRAs. The spouse argues that under Iowa Code section 633D.8, she may reach the IRAs because they were "a transfer at death of a security registered...

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