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<p class="MsoPlainText">You’re looking for Chapter 11.05A (the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act), specifically RCW 11.05A.020, which requires 120 hours of survival. Otherwise each person is deemed to have predeceased the other. There are exceptions which I would
encourage you to read, but it sounds to me from your fact pattern you are looking at that statute and RCW 11.05A.040 which describes distribution between co-owners when there is simultaneous death (basically one owner’s estate gets half and the others gets
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From: wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com> On Behalf Of John Wickham<br>
Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:17 PM<br>
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Subject: [WSBAPT] Joint Tenancy with almost Simultaneous Death</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Listmates,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Two people who hold real property in WA as JTWROS pass within hours of each other. Is there case law in WA that defines simultaneous death (within how many seconds, minutes, hours, days) for purposes of determining whether the "survivor"
is treated as a survivor and became sole owner of the RP? I was just told that California has a 120 hour rule.<o:p></o:p></p>
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