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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Question of the day.</DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Client was appointed as successor trustee of RLT and PR under pour over will. </DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Client's beneficial interest in the RLT is likely to amount to zero. Serving as trustee is likely to require dealing with somewhat contentious family members. </DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Therefore, client and co-fiduciary executed declinations to serve as either successor trustees or PR's. </DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Discussions ensued with counsel for one of the other children/beneficiaries whose beneficial interest may be worth something and who wants to serve. A TEDRA agreement to accomplish a unanimous appointment of the other child is in the draft/negotiation stage, but it is taking longer than my client would like. </DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Problem: my client has the keys to decedent's home and all his books and records. But she has declined appointment as fiduciary. I am reluctant to advise handing them over to the sibling until the sibling possesses legitimate legal authority, either through a nonjudicial TEDRA agreement or a court order. </DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Question: Is it possible through a relatively simple way to deposit the keys and documents in the registry of the court (either King or Pierce)? What would be the mechanism for doing so? Simply filing the Will? Petitioning for probate without requesting appointment? A TEDRA Action requesting appointment of an alternate successor trustee by the court? If any of those alternatives is appropriate, how does one deposit the tangible items into the registry after opening the matter?</DIV>
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<DIV aria-label="Compose body">Thanks in advance.</DIV>
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