[WSBAPT] Opinion Letter for Small Estate

[jeffrey winter]

Listmates:

I am trying to transfer copyright royalties to a surviving spouse  via the
small estate affidavit.  New York counsel is in charge of distributing
royalty payments to heirs of the copyright holder.  I submitted the
Affidavit and Claim to him, along with the death certificate of the former
payee.  He was only somewhat familiar with the small estate proceedings,
so I also sent pertinent sections of the RCW to him for his review.

He is now requesting a full opinion letter to protect himself as
fiduciary.  The royalty payments amount to perhaps $700 a year.  It's hard
for me to justify the expense of an opinion letter to my client for that
kind of money.

Have any of you run into this before?

Thank you, in advance, for your thoughts.

Jeff Winter

Law Office of Jeffrey D. Winter, P.S.
604 North Main Street
Ellensburg, WA 98926
(509) 925-9600 

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