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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks to all who responded to my query.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Doug Bratt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D'>Douglas J. Bratt</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D'>Lawyer</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><img width=176 height=179 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D09F00.C920C9D0" alt="Envelope scaled Foster"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Office: (360) 213-2040 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> Fax: (360) 213-2030<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received this message by mistake, please do not review, disclose, copy, or distribute the email. Instead, please notify us immediately by replying to this message or telephoning us. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>NOTE:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>I do not use encrypted email. Messages sent to or from my office via email are not secure and may not be protected by attorney-client privilege. This email address is not monitored at all times. If your matter is urgent, please phone my office during regular business hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>TAX ADVICE NOTICE: IRS Circular 230 requires us to advise you that, if this communication or any attachment contains any tax advice, the advice is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding federal tax penalties. A taxpayer may rely on professional advice to avoid federal tax penalties only if the advice is reflected in a comprehensive tax opinion that conforms to stringent requirements. Please contact us if you have any questions about Circular 230 or would like to discuss our preparation of an opinion that conforms to these IRS rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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>George Edensword-Breck<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 03, 2015 2:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> [Retrieved]Re: [WSBAPT] Can TEDRA Modify Will Provisions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tom’s response is well put and summarizes the intent of TEDRA directly and simply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> <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>Thomas M. Culbertson<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Can TEDRA Modify Will Provisions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>I’ll weigh in.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Simple answer – yes you can use a TEDRA agreement to do what you want to do.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>More nuanced answer – You’re not really modifying the terms of will (they were cast in stone when the testator died). What you’re doing is having everyone with an interest in the estate agreeing to a distribution of the estate contrary to the terms of the will. If everyone who has an interest in the estate agrees and signs on, who’s there to complain? Well, potentially the IRS. And it has no reason to complain, but if it believes that an interested party relinquished a valuable property right, then it will treat the agreement as a taxable gift. But depending upon the financial situation of the remainder beneficiaries (I’m assuming that’s the kids), the fact that they may have made a gift to Mom may be of no concern.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>________________________________________</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>THOMAS M. CULBERTSON </span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>I </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> Lukins & Annis, PS</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>717 W. Sprague Ave, Suite 1600, Spokane, WA 99201</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>(509) 455-9555</span><span style='color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> I </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> fax (509) 363-2500</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> I </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:tculbertson@lukins.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>tculbertson@lukins.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> <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>Douglas Bratt<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 02, 2015 8:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Can TEDRA Modify Will Provisions</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I got one response on-list (from James Jackson). I have received no responses, off-list.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I would welcome any other responses anyone of you might offer.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Doug </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D'>Douglas J. Bratt</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D'>Lawyer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=220 height=224 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D09F00.C920C9D0" alt="Envelope scaled Foster"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Office: (360) 213-2040 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> Fax: (360) 213-2030</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received this message by mistake, please do not review, disclose, copy, or distribute the email. Instead, please notify us immediately by replying to this message or telephoning us. Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>NOTE:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>I do not use encrypted email. Messages sent to or from my office via email are not secure and may not be protected by attorney-client privilege. This email address is not monitored at all times. If your matter is urgent, please phone my office during regular business hours.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>TAX ADVICE NOTICE: IRS Circular 230 requires us to advise you that, if this communication or any attachment contains any tax advice, the advice is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding federal tax penalties. A taxpayer may rely on professional advice to avoid federal tax penalties only if the advice is reflected in a comprehensive tax opinion that conforms to stringent requirements. Please contact us if you have any questions about Circular 230 or would like to discuss our preparation of an opinion that conforms to these IRS rules.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> <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>Paul Neumiller<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 01, 2015 4:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Can TEDRA Modify Will Provisions [text]</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Doug, did you get any responses off-list to your post? I haven’t seen any answers posted to the list. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> <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>Douglas Bratt<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2015 5:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Can TEDRA Modify Will Provisions<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Listmates:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Husband and Wife have three sons, all over the age of majority.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Husband (considerably older) and Wife signed wills, both with testamentary provisions putting their respective interests in the family home into an irrevocable Trust, for the benefit of the survivor, with their oldest son named as Trustee. Unfortunately, no Community Property Agreement was entered into.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Husband died. Probate not yet filed. Currently, Wife owns half of house, outright, and the other half, if the will is followed, will be in Trust for benefit of Wife. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Language appears to be as would be used in a Special Needs Trust, indicating that Trustee can pay Wife’s expenses, “but only such expenses over and above the ones which would be paid by any local, state, or federal government or from any private or public profit or non-profit organization if the trust and its assets were not in existence.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A further provision states that if the beneficiary is not receiving gov’t benefits, based upon need or disability, “the trustee shall have the absolute and sole discretion to determine what disbursements shall be made from the trust estate for the beneficiary’s benefit.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wife has no medical issues and is unlikely to have any such issues for quite some time, based upon her present age. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Question is whether or not the Wife, and her three sons (the ultimate beneficiaries) can enter into a TEDRA Agreement, right at start of probate, to allow for wife to directly receive the husband’s half of the house instead of having to set up the trust and then having the Trustee decide that a full disbursement from the Trust shall be made for beneficiary’s benefit, since she is not receiving gov’t benefits based upon need or disability when that transfer takes place. Seems like too many complications involved with getting to the goal (of full ownership by Wife) if the Trust has to be established per the Will.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wife and all three sons are in full agreement that she should have full ownership of house.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What say ye, old (and young, and in-between) wise ones?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Doug Bratt<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'>Douglas J. 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