[WSBAPT] Small Estate Affidavit

[Jayne Gilbert]

How hard you have to work to get the bank to release funds depends upon the
Bank. Big Banks seem to hold off paying "until they clear through their
attorneys" and they mostly will not put you through to an attorney. If you
get through, the attorney will most likely not be licensed in WA and
resistant to going off the boilerplate requiring a court order or Letters
Testamentary instead.

The next step is to let the bank know that if you must got to Court for an
order to distribute you will be seeking attorney fees and costs. The old
"attorney letter" works more often than not.

If you are dealing with a local bank like Key Bank, my clients have found
that going to different branches until one will distribute does work. Me 2
cents.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Eden Rubenstein Toner <
attorneytoner at earthlink.net> wrote:

> See RCW 11.62.  estate must be under $100,000.
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> wsbarppt.com] *On Behalf Of *Brent Williams-Ruth
> *Sent:* Friday, June 16, 2017 1:25 PM
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> *Subject:* [WSBAPT] Small Estate Affidavit
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> Happy Friday Listmates -
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> I have my first PC that would qualify for a Small Estate Affidavit but
> upon reading up, I am curious as to whether or not it would work.  Decedent
> is father to two adult children, spouse preceded him in death long ago, has
> no bills as he paid cash for everything. Only asset, as he lived with one
> of his two children, is a savings account that has approximately $35,000.
> Everything that I am reading that relates to bank accounts is for account
> value of $2,500 or less.
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> Am I missing something or will they be required to get letters of
> administration because of the higher value?
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> Thank you for the guidance.
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