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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"> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jenna Brozik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 21, 2016 12:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Does a will trump a living trust?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the scenario:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My client comes in and has a living trust that her parents had drafted in California. My client lives in Washington state. The father was the last to pass away and when this happened, his daughter, my client, became the trustee of the
living trust. According to the living trust, the daughter gets a property her parents own in Montana. My client doesn't know if there was a will with the living trust and she does not know what attorney drafted the living trust and there is no indication
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<p class="MsoNormal">After the living trust was drafted, my client's mother died and her father remarried to a woman in Texas. Her father drafted a new will before he died which stated everything goes to his new wife, including all property. Now the father's
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<p class="MsoNormal">The attorney in Texas doing the probate insists that since the Living Trust owns the Montana property, then the probate in Texas does not control the disposition of the property in Montana but the living trust does.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please give me your take on this if anyone has time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jenna Brozik</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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