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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-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Rhonda,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>The Thurston Co. Assessor website is helpful: <a href="https://www.co.thurston.wa.us/assessor/doc/SEN_DIS_VET.PDF">https://www.co.thurston.wa.us/assessor/doc/SEN_DIS_VET.PDF</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Section 2 says for co-owners only one person must meet the age or disability requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><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>Ronda Larson Kramer<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 01, 2019 7:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Senior property tax exemption for 1/3rd ownership<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Listmates,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I’m doing some pro bono estate planning for a low income senior who owns her home but as tenants in common with her two children (all have 1/3<sup>rd</sup> ownership). She is the only one who lives there. I read RCW 84.36.381 to not exclude her from the property tax exemption. Would you agree? It is silent on non-spouse partial ownership, but the fact that a person who lives in a home and whose interest is merely a life estate can nevertheless receive the tax exemption is persuasive to me that the legislature also contemplated these types of situations, where a low income senior has children on her deed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Assuming she is eligible, how does she obtain the exemption? Simply go to the tax assessor’s office and apply? She has been paying the full property tax up to now and does not realize she is eligible for the exemption.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#595959'>Ronda Larson Kramer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#AEAAAA'>J.D., LL.M. 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