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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Really curious on this … If anyone has wisdom, please reply to the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Rage Italic";background:white'>Marilyn J.Kliman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='background:white'>Marilyn J. 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Our understanding is that intended recipients consent to use of e-mail unless we are notified otherwise in writing. If you are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.</span></i> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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>James W. Spencer<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 13, 2018 9:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Lost and Found Will - What to Do?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Howdy (RP)PT Hivemind:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have an interesting situation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We drafted a will for decedent earlier this year. Decedent’s daughters were both closely involved in the drafting. Decedent died a month or so ago. Our off-site storage company could not find the original will we sent to them for safekeeping, so we drafted a declaration regarding the “lost” original (with a copy attached) and provided it to the daughters so that they could use that in an effort to initiate probate proceedings with their new attorney.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The storage facility finally found the will, so we now have the original. We told daughters (there was some controversy between the two daughters at the time of execution about the provisions of the will) that we would file the original as a will only filing with the Court, unless their attorney had already opened a case number. The attorney responded with a case number, and to our surprise, the docket reflects that they used a prior will (with different provisions) to open the estate, and did not file our declaration re: the lost will. Both daughters verified in the petition that an earlier will was their father’s last will and testament.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The (King County) clerk has told us that we must file the found will under as a will only filing under a new case number.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Questions:<o:p></o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Wouldn’t it make way more sense for the found original to be filed under the existing case no? <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>How would you bring that will to the Court’s attention, regardless of whether its filed under the existing case number or a new one?<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What of the strangeness that the daughters knew of a new will but probated the old one? Do we bring that to the Court’s attention?<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In my 13 years of practice, I’ve never dealt with a situation like this, and thought that some of y’all could provide some valuable insight.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>James<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'>James W. 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