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Iowa Panel OKs Inheritance Change
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A legislative subcommittee has approved a measure giving inheritance rights to Iowa children born up to two years after their father's death.
The measure would mean children conceived through in vitro fertilization would be entitled to benefits such as Social Security survivor payments even if they were born up to two years after a parent's death. The subcommittee approved the plan Thursday after hearing from Patti Beeler, a West Branch woman who gave birth to a girl after her husband died of cancer. She had to go to court to receive Social Security benefits because of a 150-year-old Iowa inheritance law. The Social Security Administration is appealing a ruling granting her those benefits. The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee. More Good Stuff |
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