[WSBAPT] Is it a valid Will

[Nick Pleasants]

Kokie,
The short will can be valid as to what it says. I recently had a one-page will admitted that said something like "I appoint my sister to sell my house and distribute the proceeds of sale to these people...". It had no residue clause so decedent would be intestate as to the residue, but the will is valid to appoint the executor and control disposition of the asset it covered. Does your will have any useful language? If not, I might file it with the probate court, but proceed under intestacy RCW 11.04.015<https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=11.04.015>.

Nicholas Pleasants | Shareholder

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Is it a valid Will

If a person creates a one page Will (from a form book) that is witnessed, but document fails to list to whom assets are to be distributed is it a valid Will?  If so, to whom are assets distributed?

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Kokie Adams
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