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§ 557.9

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557.9 Defeating expectant estate. No expectant estate shall be defeated or barred by an alienation or other act of the owner of the precedent estate, nor by the destruction of such precedent estate by disseizin, forfeiture,surrender, or merger; provided that on the petition of the life tenant, with the consent of theholder of the reversion, the district court may order the sale of the property in such estateand the proceeds shall be subject to the order of court until the right thereto becomes fullyvested. The proceedings shall be as in an action for partition. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10048; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §557.9] Sat Dec 23 11:04:57 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 557.9 (15, 0)