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50 Iowa Law. 1 (1990)

handle is hein.barjournals/ialaw0050 and id is 1 raw text is: Probate Delinquency Files opened per year Number of Probated Delinquency Complaint Files Opened 2000- 1800 1600... 1400- 1200.... 1000. 600 82-83 83-84 1' 8 84-85 85-86 66-87 87-88 88469 8990 * Fiscal Year **First (July) reporting period only Chief Justice calls for more court resources for drug fight (Editor's Note: Here is the text of Chief Justice Arthur McGiverin's State of the Judiciary address. It was delivered to the Iowa Judges Conference December 6.) Thank You, Judge Pelton. My congratulations, Judge Pelton, for your recent appointment to the board of directors of The National Center for State Courts located at Williamsburg, Virginia. This is a tremendous honor which reflects upon your dedication to the judiciary. I will not present a state of the judiciary message to the legislature next session because of the legislatu 's plan to expedite the session. Inste-a Judge Pelton has graciously allowed me to use this opportunity to discuss the condition of theJudicial Department and to discuss the department's budget request for the next fiscal year. I want to recognize the officers and board of governors of The Iowa State Bar Association and other members of the bar who are present. The judicial budget committee of the (continued on page 5) Probate delinquencies rise again According to reports filed with the State Court Administrator, 52 of the 101 clerk's offices (Lee and Pottawattami Counties have two) reported no probate delinquencies as ofJuly 1, 1989. This is a seven-fold increase in the number of counties reporting no probate delinquen- cies since July 1982 when only seven counties so reported. In addition, Norman Bastemeyer, Ethics Administrator, Iowa State Bar Association, reported the number of probate delinquency complaint files opened decreased from 1,962 in fiscal year 1983-84 to 181 in fiscal year 1988-89. The downward trend, however, may be ending. The 482 probate delinquences reported by the clerks for theJuly 1989 period was more than double the number (185) reported inJanuary 1989 and 40 percent more than the number (293) probate delinquencies reported in July 1988. The probate delinquencies reported by the clerks in July resulted in the filing of 298 complaints with the Iowa Bar Ethics Committee. No com- plaints were filed in 184 cases which could not be processed for various reasons, such as: no designated attorney (165), designation of a firm rather than an individual attorney (11), or the attorney designated was deceased, suspended or out-of-state (8). The number of probate delinquency complaint files opened by the Iowa Bar Ethics Committee since fiscal year 1982-83 is illustrated in the accompany- ing chart. (Reprinted from the Third Branch, The Newsletter of the Iowa Judicial Dept.) I a lhe News Bulletin Vol. 50, No. 1 January, 1990 The Publication of The Iowa State Bar Association

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