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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Listmates:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>I represent the PR in an Estate. Notice to Creditors has been published and Creditors have until mid-November to file their Creditor’s Claims. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>A local service provider mailed a face page, on legal pleading paper with the appropriate caption for the case, about a week ago. The language of the face page related to the “facts and circumstances constituting the basis of the claim” stated, as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>“<i>Facts and circumstances surrounding the Claim: <b>PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED ITEMIZED STATEMENT).”<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>There were multi-pages of computerized print-outs detailing the professional services, with the total of figures on three separate pages equaling the <i>Amount of Claim </i>set out on the face page of the Creditor’s Claim received by me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>When I checked the court file, all that had been filed was the FIRST PAGE, without the attached computerized print-out detailing the professional services. In other words, although the reader was directed to refer to the attached itemized statement, there was no itemized statement attached to the FIRST PAGE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The Creditor’s Claim provisions are set out below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>§ 11.40.070. Claims - Form - Manner of presentation - Waiver of defects </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(1)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>The claimant, the claimant's attorney, or the claimant's agent shall sign the claim and include in the claim the following information: <o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)(a)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(a)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>The name and address of the claimant;<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)(b)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(b)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>The name, address, if different from that of the claimant, and nature of authority of an agent signing the claim on behalf of the claimant;<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)(c)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(c)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>A statement of the facts or circumstances constituting the basis of the claim;<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)(d)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(d)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>The amount of the claim; and<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="1%" nowrap valign=top style='width:1.0%;padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="11.40.070(1)(e)"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#125687'>(e)</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt 2.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>If the claim is secured, unliquidated, contingent, or not yet due, the nature of the security, the nature of the uncertainty, or the date when it will become due. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>Failure to describe correctly the information in (c), (d), or (e) of this subsection, if the failure is not substantially misleading, does not invalidate the claim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#545454'>END OF STATUTE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#545454'>Query: Is the failure to include the computerized pages in the document filed with the Clerk of Court (while providing the pages in the document mailed to me) sufficient to invalidate the claim?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#545454'>What say ye, oh wise ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#545454'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#545454'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#545454'>Doug Bratt<o:p></o:p></span></p></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Douglas J. 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