<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Jeanne--I haven't had the situation, but logic seems determinative to me. The statute says the will is revoked as to a former wife, and that is your situation. The will was revoked as to her the instant they became divorced. I don't see that initially making her an estate beneficiary when she was not a wife makes any difference either under the statute or under the spirit of the law. Presumably the man who wanted to have his friend be a beneficiary under his will would continue to want that after he got married. Thus, no need to change the will when they got married. However, it seems to me if he then divorces his wife the statute applies as presumably he would no longer want her to be a beneficiary. I can't make a real argument that just because he made her a beneficiary when she was a friend, then even when he later divorces her the will continues to apply. That doesn't seem to follow.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Mark</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Jeanne Dawes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjdawes@goregrewe.com" target="_blank">jjdawes@goregrewe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Has anyone run into a situation where</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">the</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">Last Will and Testament</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">names as a</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> beneficiary a</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">person</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> who at the time of making the will was not married to testator, but who subsequently married and divorced testator</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">. </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">At the time the will was made (1987), the testator was married</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">to</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> someone else, and subsequently divorced. </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">At the time of death the testator was unmarried. </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">I’m hoping that RCW 11.12.051 which revokes provisions in a will as to former spouses will not apply</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">in</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">this scenario</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">, since the two were not married at the time the will was made. Testator never revoked the will or made a new will. </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">If you’ve run into this before, or have any insight as to what a court might do, I would appreciate hearing from you. I do not have any beneficiaries contesting where the meager balance of this estate should go. The testator left his</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">estate</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">in trust, giving the trustee</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">discretion</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">to choose among a</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">short</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">list of people</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">where</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">estate should go. </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri"> </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">Trustee wants it to go to the ex-wife who was not married to testator at the time the Will was created.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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