[WSBAPT] Clearing Title per Com. Prop. Agmt.

[Heather de Vrieze]

I typically prepare a LOPA (lack of probate affidavit), call it a community property affidavit, and attach a redacted copy of the death certificate. The full legal and date of acquisition of the property are generally included in this affidavit.

The coversheet for this recording references the abbreviated legal, lists the deceased spouse as grantor, the surviving spouse as grantee, the prior recording numbers (acquisition deed, community property agreement). I have not had King County yet accept a REETA for such recordings.

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Clearing Title per Com. Prop. Agmt.

Colleagues,

I need to clear a decedent’s name off title to real property in favor of his surviving spouse.  There is a community property agreement, which was recorded in 1975.  I was under the impression that I only needed to record the certified copy of the death certificate and a REETA to transfer the property into the wife’s name….  But when I go to record the DC via Simplifile, there’s no place for uploading a REETA.  It feels incomplete to record the DC and reference the abbreviated legal and TPN on the cover sheet without a separate document explaining the transfer and the WAC citation for the exemption.  HELP!  What am I doing wrong?

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