Section 142C.12A - Law governing validity, choice of law, presumption of validity.

IA Code § 142C.12A (2019) (N/A)
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142C.12A Law governing validity, choice of law, presumption of validity.

1. A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with any of the following:

a. This chapter.

b. The laws of the state or country where the document of gift was executed.

c. The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

2. If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.

3. A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.

2007 Acts, ch 44, §15