Probate Practice: Or a Compendium of the Statutes of Iowa (1889)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER YI. EXECUTORS – TRUSTEES – SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION. Section 2345. A married woman may act as executor, independant of her husband. Sec. 2346. If a minor under eighteen, years of age is appointed an executor, there is a temporary vacancy as to him until he reaches that age. Sec. 2347. Vacancies. – IE a person appointed executor refuses to accept the trust, or neglects to appear within ten days after his appointment and give bond as hereinafter prescribed, or if an executor removes his residence from the State, a vacancy will be deemed to have occurred. An executor may refuse to accept the trust, or may create a vacancy by removal from the State, and he may also surrender his trust by resignation. The United States Rolling Stock Co., v. Potter, 48 Iowa, on p. 66. Non-residence alone does not disqualify one so that he cannot lawfully be appointed an administrator of an estate in this State, but ordinarily, in the absence of circumstances requiring the appointment of a non-resident, it should not be made. The C. S.