[WSBAPT] probate petition where assets unclear

[Heather deVrieze]

Provided sufficient information to so allege, I will generally include a recitation that the assets appear to exceed ("significantly, slightly, etc.) $100,000 (the amount at which probate is the process dictated) and that that debts, though unknown, do not appear to exceed $xx.xx with a recitation that the Personal Representative will promptly notify the Court if that changes.

Heather

Heather S. de Vrieze
Attorney-at-Law
de Vrieze | Carney PLLC
3909 California Avenue SW
Seattle, WA 98116-3705                          
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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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