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7 News Bull. 1 (1947)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0007 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEWS OF BULLETIN The Iowa State Bar Association Vol. VII, No. 1 1101 Fleming Building, Des Moines 9, Iowa January, 1947 Committee Proposes Bar Foundation Continues to Grow, Child Protection Bill Coun Asocition PuhinPlant A bill to give more protection to the chil- dren of separated parents has been asked by the Iowa State Bar Association. The Associa- tion's committee working on divorce laws, headed by William F. Riley, Des Moines, has recommended that judges be given the same right to issue orders for the welfare of chil- dren involved in separate maintenance suits as the courts now have in divorce cases. Tfhe important study being undertaken by the committee will not be completed in time to present it in its entirety to the fifty-second gen- eral assembly. A partial set of recommenda- tions, however, will be offered. Divorce law now permits a judge to make orders in relation to the children, property and other factors. The committee would give the judge the right to sign similar orders in separate maintenance actions. Also, divorce laws now provide that willful disobedience of a divorce decree constitutes contempt of court. The committee suggests that similar disobedience in separate mainten- ance cases alsoa shall be classed as contempt. Another suggested change would require .\,testimony in a divorce hearing to be taken down by an official court reporter. If a judge suspected perjury, or If he wanted to look over the testimony for some other reason, he could order the notes transcribed at public expense. Ordinarily, no record Is taken in an uncon- tested divorce action. There are three district judges on the com- mittee. They are Harold E. Davidson, Clarin- da; H. V. Levis, Chariton, and Milton J. Glenn, Dubuque. The fifth member is Boyd Cambridge, Atlantic. Special Examination The Supreme Court has directed the Iowa Board of Law Examiners to hold a special examination for applicants for admission to the Bar on February 5, 6 and 7 at Iowa City, Iowa. The purpose of holding a special ex- amination at this time is to afford im- mediate opportunity of admission to the Bar to those persons who have completed the course of study of law but who have been prevented from taking one of the regular examinations, and to avoid the necessity of such applicants waiting for the regular examination which is to be held in June. All prospective and qualifled applicants may avail themselves of this opportunity for immediate admission by making ap- plication to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, State House, Des Moines 19, Iowa. y1 g 1 A recent report of the treasurer of the Iowa Bar Foundation, Judge Frederic M. Miller, of Des Moines, Iowa, indicates that the campaign of the Iowa Bar Foundation to achieve an ulti- mate goal of $50,000.00 during this fiscal year is making continued progress. As announced in last month's bulletin, the quota of Story County in the amount of $500.00 has recently been m, t and Leo Hoegh, Foundation repre- sentative in Lucas County, has reported that the quota for that county will be in the hands of the treasurer before the Annual Convention in June. In order that more and more members of the Iowa State Bar Association may become familiar with the Foundation, the Bulletin will continue to carry monthly articles regarding its progress. Association Officers to Attend Meeting By the time this issue of the News Bulletin is off the press the President and Secretary of the Association, together with several members of the Board, will have attended the first post- war regional meeting of the American Bar Association at the Hotel Paxton in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday and Saturday, January 24 and 25. This meeting is the first of the regional meetings to be held under the new constitu- tional amendment providing for such meetings as an integral part of the functions of the American Bar Association, and it is believed that the attendance by the officers of the Iowa State Bar Association will be of great benefit to our own Association. The principal features of the tentative pro- gram will be as follows: On the subject of administrative procedure and practice there will be a practical discussion by qualified speakers pointed toward helping the lawyer in his practice and to outline a program of action in this field. This is of particular Interest to the Iowa State Bar Association because of the many requests from our membership that our Association establish an administrative law school to be conducted along the lines of our highly successful Tax School. There will also be a forum on labor law, and a conference of state and local bar associ- ation executives. The conference will be held under the direction of the Section of Bar Ac- tivities of the American Bar Association, and it is anticipated that many valuable matters will be obtained from this meeting. One question that is often asked is, what specific use will be made of Foundation Funds? A little reflection will show that this question cannot really be satisfactorily answered for the reason that what is done with the money will depend upon how much is at hand, when it is available, and what the major need happens to be at that time. The rapid changes taking place in our political and economic life make it impossible to anticipate what the lawyer will be up against in the next few years or even in the next few months. However, the purpose of the accumulation of the funds in the Iowa Bar Foundation Is to enable the Iowa State Bar Association to weather its own storms and to contribute to the welfare of its membership and to the needs of our country whenever and however they arise. Experience has shown that a large per,*en- tage of the Association's committee activities are in reality quite unproductive of any direct benefit for no other reason than that there are no funds with which to work or pay expenses. There are many men in the Association who are willing to devote their time for the benefit of the Association and the profession of law but who cannot do so at a financial loss. This results in committee stagnation and ineffici- ency. (Continued on Page 2) Important Notice Considerable difficulty is being experi- enced in the office of the Collector of In- ternal Revenue on account of the meth- ods used by lawyers, accountants and others who assist taxpayers in filing re- turns and in associating remittances and supporting forms or documents before forwarding to the Collector. In the ma- jority of cases it is necessary to sep- arate and completely reassemble the file before it may be properly processed. The Collector has prepared specific instruc- tions for assembling 1946 Income Tax Returns and with the assistance of the headquarters office will mail such in- structions to all lawyers who are mem- bers of the Iowa State Bar Association. As there are still 750,000 documents and returns to be received by the Col- lector-by March 15, 1947, the instruc- tions, when re care- greatly la the handling ofrtupi after th reachhp- Cliefe orlFce.

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