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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All -</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I need some advice on an interesting probate situation. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decedent passed away - no surviving spouse, no Will. Real property involved. Decedent's son is disqualified as PR due to felony; daughter is disqualified due to mental illness (her daughter - decedent's granddaughter - was appointed guardian by California court, where they both live).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Felon-son is squatting on one piece of property with extended family members, allegations of active drug use involved. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decedent's granddaughter contacted me. She wants advice re:<span> </span><u><b>who<span> </span></b>can petition court</u><span> </span>to appoint a PR to handle the probate since decedent's children can't act, and neither have the capacity/understanding/wherewithal to initiate the probate process anyway. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I need clarification on what the next steps would be, and who can take those steps so that I can narrow my scope of involvement (if I'm involved at all).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(Please excuse me if the answers are right in front of me and I'm missing something obvious - it's been a long day...)</div>

<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Warmly,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000">Rachel</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Rachel R. Bender<br>Attorney<br><br><b>Bender Law PLLC</b><br>1001 Fourth Avenue, Suite 3200, Seattle, WA 98154<br><b>Reception</b>: 206.577.7987 | <b>Direct</b>: 206.682.0554 | <b>Fax</b>: 206.693.4365</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.bender-law.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.bender-law.com</font></a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="width:510px"><div style="max-width:600px;margin:8px 0px 0px 8px;color:gray;border-top:1px solid gray"><font size="1">CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and may be protected by the attorney/client privilege, work product doctrine, or other nondisclosure protection. If you believe that it has been sent to you in error, you may not read, disclose, print, copy, store or disseminate the e-mail or any attachments or the information in them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify this attorney immediately by replying to this email.</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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