[WSBAPT] What if no named PR is qualified to serve?

[Bruce Moen]

11.28.120(7) "... or any suitable person."

I've have just recruited someone, friend or family or another lawyer, and the court has always appointed.

Notice to all of the interested parties unless the interested parties sign a consent to the appointment.

  Bruce Moen
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Subject: [WSBAPT] What if no named PR is qualified to serve?

Listmates,
I have never run into this before, but what options are available if no named personal representative in a will is qualified to serve? There are incapacity and crimes of moral turpitude issues for all three named PRs. And there does not appear to be any unnamed friend or other family member willing to petition to be PR.

Are we just left with a "contract service provider with the office of public guardianship and conservatorship" under RCW 11.28.120(7)? The other possibilities listed under the RCW don't exist, are not applicable, or are disqualified. How does the process with the office of public guardianship work? Do they get paid from the estate? Do we petition the court to appoint at random a contract service provider?

Any advice is most welcome.

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