[WSBAPT] Getting successor trustee appointed

[Josh Grant]

I have  a client whose dad died.  No other reason to do a probate.

No assets except for that discussed below, some debt:  therefore we can’t do a notice of claim of successor.

There is a $15,000 paid up veterans life insurance policy .  Beneficiary was designated “Jones revocable family trust”.  
  No trust agreement can be located. Decedent did record a “Affidavit of Trust Existence” , which sets out the name and date of the trust and its named Trustees (both are dead) the successor Trustee (she also died) and it has no explanation of who/how successor trustees are picked.
My client doesn’t have authority to apply for insurance, as far as we can tell.

Has anyone petitioned the Superior Court to appoint a successor trustee?  Maybe a TEDRO action with VA as defendant?  Or is there an easier way to handle this?

thanks

Josh

Joshua F. Grant, PS
Attorney at Law
P. O. Box 619
Wilbur, WA 99185
tel 509 647 5578
fax 509 647 2734




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