[WSBAPT] Idaho real estate

[Heather de Vrieze]

I see two potential problems, the first only relevant if there are other beneficiaries. The Personal Representative deeding estate property to themselves, even if done with the best of intentions is improper unless it is in distribution of a specific gift, or the Personal Representative is the sole beneficiary. Additionally, and probably more to your specific point, a WA PR has no authority under ID law to execute deeds to ID property.

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Idaho real estate

Dear Listmates:

Question:  Washington probate for Washington resident.  One remaining asset to be administered is real property in Idaho.  PR would like to deed it to herself and close the estate.  But what sort of title problems will that cause in the future if there's no Idaho process of some sort undertaken now?  Is an ancillary probate unavoidable?

Mike

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