MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF RADDA

No. 19-2088.

955 N.W.2d 203 (2021)

In the MATTER OF the GUARDIANSHIP and Conservatorship OF Vernon D. RADDA. Kevin Kiene and Barbara Kiene, Appellants, v. Washington State Bank, as Conservator for Vernon D. Radda, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Siobhan Briley (argued) of Pugh Hagan Prahm PLC, Coralville, for appellants.

R. Ronald Pogge and Chandler M. Surrency (argued) of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee Washington State Bank, as conservator for Verdon D. Radda.


In this interlocutory appeal, we must decide whether a prospective heir can bring a declaratory judgment action under Iowa Code section 633.637 (2019) to determine the validity of wills before the testator dies. The ward executed wills in 1992 and 2015 while he was in a voluntary conservatorship and without any contemporaneous...

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