Trusts are common tools used in estate planning, and other situations which require a third party to take control of an owner’s property to be distributed to a third party. While creation of trusts involve several unfamiliar legal terms, the basic idea of a trust is to allow someone else to hold onto your property for the benefit of a third person. For instance, you may have heard the term “trust fund baby” where wealthy parents have created a trust, managed by a bank or other financial professional, for their children to receive payments.

In this article, we will review the Iowa appeals process. We will discuss what types of court orders can be appealed, how the Iowa appeal process works, deadlines for filing an appeal and any associated paperwork, what happens after the appeal is filed, what actions the appeals court can take after hearing a case, and what happens if you lose an appeal. We’ll begin with a short overview of how the appeals process works in Iowa.

In this article, we discuss what happens if you believe a will or trust in your family is a fraud. We cover the following questions: Suspicion of fraud, How do people forge testamentary documents?, How do I investigate potential forgery for probate fraud litigation?, Standing and Grounds for Probate Fraud, Red Flags Found within Forged Documents, Red flags in the document’s signature, and Accomplices in a Trust Forgery.