<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20.8px"><div class="" style="min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:1318.34px"><h4 style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px">I don't think they can delegate that authority...unless the Will states they can (or references the trustee provisions) They can delegate between themselves as co-PRs, but not to a third person</h4><h4 style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px"><br></h4><h4 style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px">RCW 11.28.040</h4><h4 style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px">Procedure during minority or absence of executor.</h4></div></div><div id="contentWrapper" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20.8px"><div style="text-indent:0.25in;margin-left:0in">If the executor be a minor or absent from the state, letters of administration with the will annexed shall be granted, during the time of such minority or absence, to some other person unless there be another executor who shall accept the trust, in which case the estate shall be administered by such other executor until the disqualification shall be removed, when such minor, having arrived at full age, or such absentee, having returned, shall be admitted as joint executor with the former, provided a nonresident of this state may qualify as provided in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.36.010" class="" style="color:rgb(125,171,138);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">11.36.010</a>.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Bickel, Dwight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dwight.Bickel@fntg.com" target="_blank">Dwight.Bickel@fntg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If both co-personal representatives must jointly act under the Will or probate order, plan to arrange for foreign acknowledgement and delivery.<br>
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Title companies should accept and rely upon a delegation of fiduciary powers by one Co-PR to the other Co-PR for a conveyance on behalf of the estate by the one Co-PR. Otherwise, if the title company will not accept that delegation, usually it will accept the signature by one Co-PR with the approval of the other (that can be a scanned signature on a closing statement obtained in advance or sent by email).<br>
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