[WSBAPT] Non-Probate Property Transfer

[Amy Goertz]

Thank you for your thoughts. However, the property is to go to the nephew and not the brother. I was thinking of filing a TEDRA, since all are in agreement, and then a Lack of Probate Affidavit, but the wording of the Affidavit statute seems to require that the parties be intestate heirs, and the nephew would not be a direct intestate heir. 

Can you open an intestate estate when there is a lost Will? We would have the siblings decline to serve as PR, and consent to a non pro rata distribution to the nephew?


Sent from Amy's iPhone, which spells as it pleases and is not grammar correctly. 

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 6:28 AM, jeff at bellanddavispllc.com wrote:
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> Amy,
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> I assume brother and sister are mom’s only heirs?  I would open in intestate probate with son named as the administrator.  Sister can assign her interest in the estate to her brother.  Brother than deeds the house to himself.  I believe that would work. 
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> Subject: [WSBAPT] Non-Probate Property Transfer
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> Hello, learned property folks -
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> Wondering how best to accomplish a property transfer based on the following:
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> 2005 Decedent drafts Will. I do not have this Will.
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> 2006 Decedent drafts Codicil. Codicil lays out fact pattern that states decedent let nephew use her name and good credit to buy a house in Spokane (she lived there with him) and that he paid for everything and upon her death, any interest she has in the house goes to nephew.
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> 2007 Decedent moves out of state with daughter and drafts new Will that revokes Codicil. 2007 Will leaves all to son and daughter equally. 
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> 2020 Decedent dies due to corona virus. Original 2007 Will is now lost. There is no probate and no assets other than the house in Spokane in mom’s name for which nephew made all financial contributions. 
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> Son and daughter are familiar with facts and willing to sign documents as necessary to transfer any interest to nephew (their cousin).
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> I would very much appreciate your thoughts and input as to the best and most streamlined mechanism to get the house into the nephew’s name.
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