[WSBAPT] Probates of husband and wife dying 3 days apart

Wed Nov 3 10:03:43 PDT 2021

Dalynne,

This survivorship requirement is in the code and the only one I believe I am familiar with.  May documents will require a survivorship period but I don't know of any 30 day requirement between spouses.  Would love to be set straight if I'm off here.

RCW 11.05A.020<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.05A.020>
Minimum survival requirement-Probate code.
Except as provided in RCW 11.05A.060<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.05A.060> and except for the purposes of the uniform TOD security registration act, if the title to property, the devolution of property, the right to elect an interest in property, or the right to exempt property, homestead, or family allowance depends upon an individual's survivorship of the death of another individual, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived the other individual by one hundred twenty hours is deemed to have predeceased the other individual. This section does not apply if its application would result in a taking of intestate estate by the state.

RCW 11.05A.060<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.05A.060>
Exceptions.
This chapter does not apply if:
(1) The governing instrument contains language dealing explicitly with simultaneous deaths or deaths in a common disaster and that language is operable under the facts of the case;
(2) The governing instrument expressly indicates that an individual is not required to survive an event, including the death of another individual, by any specified period or expressly requires the individual to survive the event for a stated period;
(3) The imposition of a one hundred twenty-hour requirement of survival would cause a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment to be invalid under RCW 11.98.130<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.98.130> through 11.98.160<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.98.160>; or
(4) The application of this chapter to multiple governing instruments would result in an unintended failure or duplication of a disposition.
[ 2007 c 475 § 12<http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2236.SL.pdf?cite=2007%20c%20475%20%C2%A7%2012>.]

Diane J. Kiepe

Diane J. Kiepe
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Spokane, WA  99201
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From: wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com> On Behalf Of Dalynne Singleton
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:46 AM
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Subject: [WSBAPT] Probates of husband and wife dying 3 days apart

I cannot for the life of me find the references in the probate statute to spouses dying less than 30 days after the other and how that might affect TESTATE estate, if any.
If anyone knows of the reference/cite, please let me know.

Dalynne Singleton
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