[WSBAPT] bank account taken upon death to pay for loan from bank

[Sheila Ridgway]

How frustrating.  You did the right things.  I wonder if the question turns on RCW 11.40.135?

From: wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com> On Behalf Of Rob Wilson-Hoss
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Subject: [WSBAPT] bank account taken upon death to pay for loan from bank

I am thinking that this must be just one of many gaps in my understandings of the probate code.  For the first time in many years, I have a probate where the bank took all of the money in the accounts to pay for a loan that was outstanding. They base this on a contract with the decedent that lets them do this, the fine print in the original agreements. But that is a claim based on a contract that the decedent entered into prior to death. They did not file a creditor’s claim even though I sent them a 30-day ascertainable creditor’s notice.

What am I missing? Shouldn’t they have to file a creditor’s claim? And if they didn’t, then don’t they have to give the $$ back?

Thanks, I look forward to being educated.

Rob

Robert D. Wilson-Hoss
Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP
236 West Birch Street
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