Iowa FEDs: Practical Iowa Residential and Mobile Home Eviction Law provides guidance to Iowa magistrates, attorneys, landlords and tenants in navigating the maze of FED law and proceedings. It is both a treatise on the law of forcible entry and detainer and a practical guide to defending and prosecuting residential and mobile home evictions. Iowa FEDs gives a basic overview of each topic, as well as numerous detailed checklists, then gives detailed explanations with copious citations to statute and precedent and includes magistrate and district court rulings, example orders and sample lease language.
Iowa FEDs discusses the proper parties for FEDs, both for the plaintiff and defendant and discusses the processes necessary for the eviction of tenants, licensees, subtenants and squatters. Service and notice, which are the most frequent grounds for dismissal of FEDs, are carefully explained. All of the different types of FEDs are covered in detail, including unpaid rent, holdover, lease/statute violation, clear and present danger, licensee (Bernet v Rogers), squatter as well as tenant FEDs, mortgage foreclosure, land contract and tax deeds. Iowa FEDs gives extensive coverage of 562B FEDs for mobile home lots and gives a complete explanation of mobile home abandonment and disposal.
Not a rule book, Iowa FEDs aims to give not only a topical discussion of the applicable statutes and precedent, but also to provide the conceptual tools necessary to resolve any legal question, whether routine or of first impression, that arises in any FED action in an efficient, just and practical manner for the court and litigants.
The Magistrate Edition text is identical to the standard edition but is available only to sitting Iowa judicial officers, court staff, Iowa Legal Aid and other Iowa attorneys providing pro bono representation.
Christopher Warnock has been an attorney since 1990 and a member of the Iowa Bar since 2008. He specializes in landlord tenant law and has been counsel in many major Iowa landlord tenant cases.