1. An action based upon a claim arising or existing prior to January 1, 1980, shall not be maintained, either at law or in equity, in any court to recover real estate in this state or to recover or establishany interest inorclaim toreal estate, legalorequitable, against the holder of the record titleto the real estate in possession, when the holder of the record title and the holder’s immediate or remote grantors are shown by the record to have held chain of title to the real estate, since January 1,1980, unless the claimant in person, or by the claimant’s attorney or agent, or if the claimant is a minor or under legal disability, by the claimant’s guardian, trustee, or either parent, within one year from and after July 1, 1991, files in the officeof the recorder of deeds of the county inwhich the real estate is situated, a statement in writing, which is duly acknowledged, definitely describing the real estate involved, the nature andextentof the right or interestclaimed, and stating thefacts uponwhichthe claim is based. 2. For the purposes of this section, section 614.17A, and sections 614.18 through 614.20, a person who holds titleto real estate by will or descent from a person who held the titleof record to the real estate at the date of that person’s death or who holds titleby decree or order of a court, or under a tax deed, trustee’s, referee’s, guardian’s, executor’s, administrator’s, receiver’s, assignee’s, master’s in chancery, or sheriff’s deed, holds chain of title the same as though holding by direct conveyance. 3. For the purposes of this section and section 614.17A, such possession of real estate may be shown of record by affidavits showing the possession, and when the affidavits have been filed and recorded, it is the duty of the recorder to index the applicable entries specified in sections 558.49 and 558.52 and to index the name of the owner in possession, as named in the affidavits, and in like manner, the affidavits may be filed and recorded where any action was barred on any claim by this section as in force prior to July 1, 1991.
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