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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Felicia, here’s what was intended by the rewrite of 11.96A.070:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The 3 year SOL begins to run when the trustee gives a report to the beneficiary disclosing the info that would be the basis of a claim and tells the
benie that the SOL has started to run. The report doesn’t have to be in the form described in paragraph b or have to give all that info BUT a report in that form gets the presumption that there was adequate disclosure that the statute starts to run. If no
report, then under 11.96A.070(c), the SOL is 3 years from the end of the trustee’s term, the termination of the trust or the termination of the benie’s interest in the trust (whichever happens first). The revised statute of limitations is explained on page
882 of Katie Groblewski’s and my law review article: 88 Wash.L.Rev. 813 (2013).
<a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2340718">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2340718</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sam Furgason<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 15, 2015 10:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Trustee Accounting Question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Correction: strike "some" insert "no"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>From:</b> Sam Furgason [<a href="mailto:sam@furgasons.com">mailto:sam@furgasons.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 07:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ''WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv''<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Trustee Accounting Question</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I don’t think 11.106.020 would be open-ended. I think that the various general statutes of limitations would apply: 3 years; 6 years on a written agreement (but the beneficiaries might not
be parties to the trust); etc., even if not expressed in a particular section. I doubt that, while 11.106.020 may not set a specific limit, there is some limitations period once the beneficiaries have been given information. See Ch. 4.16 for a bunch, and there
are others scattered all over the place. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Felicia Value, Attorney at Law<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSB Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Trustee Accounting Question</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I’m writing a letter to a trustee client and trying to include concrete guidance re: when he
<u>must</u> provide beneficiaries with an accounting, and also how he can start the clock running on a time-bar against claims of trust mismanagement.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I am seeking a second opinion on my reading of the statues. Is this an accurate statement of current law?:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">RCW 11.106.020 requires the trustee of an irrevocable trust to give trust beneficiaries a written statement each year of current receipts and disbursements of trust income and
principal. These annual statements do not begin any statute of limitations which would time-bar a beneficiary from challenging trustee actions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">RCW 11.96A.070 describes an optional “report” a trustee may send to trust beneficiaries. The statute sets out the contents of the report, which are more extensive than the annual
accounting described in RCW 11.106.020. Delivery of a report to a beneficiary starts the clock on a three-year statute of limitations. Three years after delivery of a report, a beneficiary is time-barred from beginning an action against the trustee for breach
of trust committed more than three years prior. This is the only time-bar available to Washington trustees for challenges from beneficiaries.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks in advance for your learned advice!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Felicia Value<br>
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