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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Agree 100%. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#595959">Megan S. Farr</span></b><span style="color:#595959"><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>Heather deVrieze<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 9:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] objective is to avoid a probate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Maybe I’m just doing it wrong, or have been doing it so long that it seems easy to me, but I do not find Probate to be onerous, expensive, difficult, complicated or burdensome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I think it is the most protective of heirs, like that it provides certainty with respect to creditors and misc. heirs, and is easily understood by title companies, banks, brokers, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It is what I expect to be in place for my own estate and the estates of my nearest family members. I know there are those who practice otherwise, but I have yet to see a RLT situation be much simpler than probate.
(barring out of state assets or other complicating factors)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Heather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kristina Driessen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 9:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] objective is to avoid a probate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The reason is basic and simple. He has one beneficiary, and no living relatives[no children, siblings, cousins, etc] she is 90 years old and just wants his passing to be as easy as possible on her.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heather deVrieze<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 31, 2016 8:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] objective is to avoid a probate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The question I have in all of this is what is the reason to “avoid probate”? If it is about saving the $240 filing fee, a RLT seems like a lot of work for that, especially since the cost to record a deed to the
RLT is a significant percentage of the $240.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If the goal is to avoid notice to “heirs” the RLT does not accomplish that goal since notice would be required when the revocable trust became irrevocable. Is it simply an issue of not wanting a Will in the public
record?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I tend to agree with the folks recommending a TODD with sale post death for basis issues, unless the partners are registered, then a Community Property Agreement would make sense and avoid probate, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Vladimir Script";color:#1F497D">Heather S. de Vrieze</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul H. Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 29, 2016 4:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you use the RLT route, which I would favor, then be sure that the contract is also in the name of the trust so that the new trustee, presumably the life partner, would have control of not just the house but the contract as well. Then,
you can think through who is the next beneficiary of the contract and the house proceeds if they keep it in the trust, plus you get the step-up<br>
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On May 28, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Sara D. Longley <<a href="mailto:sara@longley-law.pro">sara@longley-law.pro</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The only way the property gets a step-up in value is if your client dies still owning it. So, TOD deed is probably the way to go, and then the partner can sell to the friend/buyer. POD designations on accounts
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Good luck, and my sympathies to your client and his partner.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">-Sara</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 28, 2016 11:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] objective is to avoid a probate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The buyer is a friend who would wait. He is only buying it to help the seller feel comfortable about leaving a stream of income to his significant other. Same issue?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kristina<o:p></o:p></p>
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From: Justin Morgan <<a href="mailto:justin@tuohyminor.com">justin@tuohyminor.com</a>>
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Date: 5/28/2016 11:19 AM (GMT-08:00) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You could do a trust with your client as the first beneficiary, and the life partner as the remainder beneficiary. Then your client retains control during life.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you do a TODD it may mess up your real estate contract since the buyer is going towing everyone bound to the deal<br>
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On May 28, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Kristina Driessen <<a href="mailto:Kristina@rdattys.comcastbiz.net">Kristina@rdattys.comcastbiz.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I have a gentlemen who is terminally ill. I have drafted his estate plan which includes the only asset to be probated which is real property. All assets are to be sold with the proceeds going to his life partner.
He has no children or other heirs. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Client now has a buyer who wishes to put a large sum down with monthly payments [$40,000.00 down]. Realizing that the client will not be around to collect the sums, he wishes to have the payments go to his life
partner. [who is the beneficiary in the will]. He would like to avoid a probate and thus headache for his beneficiary. The sum remaining on the contract even with the down payment is approximately $160,000.00. This has not closed as of yet.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The end goal is to avoid a probate. At this point, could I assign the contract to his life partner before his death? I could quit claim it to his beneficiary, but am hesitant to do so because of her then having
his basis in the property. I have also considered doing a transfer on death deed to his beneficiary and then she can enter into the contract with the buyer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Any other suggestions or ideas?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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