[WSBAPT] Reject Valid Claims?

[Paul Neumiller]

Great question.  I am also concerned with the personal representative’s liability for rejecting a “valid claim.”  Please post to the listserv.  

 

 

 

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Reject Valid Claims?

 

Colleagues,

 

Can a PR reject all properly presented claims,  whether valid or not,  in order to force the creditors to jump through additional hoops, in the hopes of shaking a few of them off?  This is not an insolvent estate.

 

RCW 11.40 doesn’t seem to address the validity of claims in its description of accepting or rejecting them.  But 11.68.110(d) says that in the Declaration of Completion, the PR must affirm “That each creditor's claim which was justly due and properly presented as required by law has been paid or otherwise disposed of by agreement with the creditor.”

 

What do you think?

 

Felicia Value
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