[WSBAPT] Lost Title/Estate vehicle

[Joshua McKarcher]

If PR has Letters, use those to obtain duplicate title — or even to change title to his/her name in same step. No affidavit of inheritance needed.

If PR has no Letters, add affidavit of inheritance to above.

Go to auditor’s office or vehicle titling substation armed with death certificate (with decedent’s SSN) and estate EIN confirmation letter just to be safe. Well, and PR’s own Washington driver’s license. And checkbook. ;)

You just never know which of the above official looking documents might give peace to the one agent out of thousands who helps you. They’re very lightweight to carry along. ;)

Best, Josh

Joshua D. McKarcher
McKarcher Law PLLC
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Clarkston, WA 99403
(509) 758-3345
(509) 758-3314 (fax)
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Good afternoon,



I have a client who is the PR and sole beneficiary of a probate estate. Decedent owned a vehicle which my client inherited. But the title to the vehicle is lost. It is not clear to me whether she needs to file an Affidavit of Lost Title or something else. One of my staff called DOL and says they told her specifically to file an Affidavit of Inheritance AND an Affidavit of Lost Title. But this is confusing to me, because the Affidavit of Inheritance specifically says that it is to be used only when no estate administration was necessary, and that is not the case here.



Does anybody know what I should do here? Please and thank you!



Brian H. Andrews, Attorney at Law

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Hawkins Law, PLLC
Phone 509-529-5175 / Fax 509-529-2564
2225 Isaacs, Suite A/ Walla Walla, WA 99362

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