[WSBAPT] Attorney withdraws from representing PR, can attorney then file/assert claim in estate for PR's unpaid fees?

[Sarah McCarthy]

Brain trust:
If attorney withdraws from representing PR of a probate estate and there is
an outstanding bill incurred by the PR - is there a method somewhere in RCW
11 that would authorize attorney to request payment of balance of unpaid
fees? These were fees incurred by the PR, not the decedent.  This wouldn't
be a claim against the decedent, so the creditor's claim procedures don't
seem to apply.

Thanks all!


*Sarah O’Farrell McCarthy*


*(Pronouns: she / her)*Attorney | Kelly, Arndt & Walker, Attorneys at Law,
PLLP
6443 Harding Avenue | P.O. Box 290 | Clinton, WA  98236

(Located on Whidbey Island, Island County, Washington)
Phone: (360) 341-1515 | Fax: (360) 341-3272
sarah at kawlawyers.com | www.kawlawyers.com


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