[WSBAPT] Noncitizen Nonresident PR

[Karl Flaccus]

A year ago, I gave up trying to get an EIN number for a Canadian PR, and went to court to get myself appointed as co-PR so we could use my EIN to open an estate bank account.  It worked great, but I had to serve as the co-PR.

Karl

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In my experience, while I don’t believe there is a legal prohibition against such, it does not work to have non-citizen, non-US resident be Personal Representative. I think they can be a co-PR, or if they are the individual with a statutory right to serve, can nominate someone they trust who is a US person. Just the process of getting a tax ID number for the estate will be extra complicated if the Personal Representative is not a US taxpayer.

I try to talk my clients out of nominating non-US persons as their PRs.

Heather

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I think this should not be that hard of a question, but I’m not readily finding the answer. Assuming a resident agent is used, can a non-citizen, non-Washington resident serve as Personal Representative of a Washington estate?

Thanks,

Jacob

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