[WSBAPT] probate petition where assets unclear

[Lisa Schuchman]

I don't typically put details about assets in the petition.  If your PR can guess the amount of assets and of debts to assert solvency I believe that's all that is expected.  The inventory is for the details.  

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-----Original Message-----
From: wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com] On Behalf Of Melinda Grout
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 3:02 PM
To: WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv
Subject: [WSBAPT] probate petition where assets unclear

Happy Monday.

Petition to open probate would normally recite:  Estate includes:   Real property $ X, Personal Property $ X.   

However PR does not yet know enough to provide even an estimate of value of estate (although PR is quite certain estate is solvent).   Therefore, a statement in the Petition, declared under penalty of perjury, that “Petitioner does not currently know the value of the probate estate, but believes, subject to further information, that assets including both real and personal property exceed liabilities” did not fly with the commissioner.  

How would one handle this instead?




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