[WSBAPT] JTWROS - Community Property question

[Laura Latta]

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On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 2:08 PM Kira Rubel <kira at theharborlawgroup.com>
wrote:

> Hey team - I don't know about the rest of you but I'm so tired of telling
> my surviving spouses that they have to do a lack of probate affidavit or,
> worse yet, a probate for the home they owned as community property!
>
> Assuming there is no living trust or community property agreement, am I
> correct that RCW 64.28.040 is the third workaround, in that it allows a
> married couple to hold title to real property as JTWROS and still get the
> full step-up in tax basis on the first death? If so, why don't I see more
> deeds held this way?  Is anyone else doing this?
>
> *Kira M. Rubel, Esq.*
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