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<p class="MsoNormal">My interpretation of the situation for half-bloods is that they are treated the same as a whole-blood sibling,
<b><i>except</i></b> as to specific property that the decedent owned at time of death that the decedent had inherited from the other bloodline.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In your case, if decedent owns, for example, a house that he inherited from his dad, that house would not go to the half-sister, but would go only to the brother.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cribbing from some WSBA subcommittee work I participated in with some other attorneys 5-6 years ago, regarding the half-blood statute:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">RCW 11.04.035 also is called the "ancestral property" statute. Ancestral property exists where “the inheritance comes to the intestate by descent, devise, or gift from one of his ancestors.”
<u>Estate of Little</u>, 106 Wn.2d 269, 285, 721 P.2d 950 (1986). Jurisdictions differ on which ancestor is of import in the analysis – the ancestor from whom the decedent received the property, or the original ancestor who acquired the property (the “first
purchaser”). Washington courts have aligned with the majority of jurisdictions rejecting the "first purchaser" doctrine, and have held that “the ancestor whose blood is to be considered is the one from whom the property immediately came to the intestate.”
<u>Little</u> at 278. Where property is identifiable as ancestral property, the current statute operates to exclude half-bloods from intestate inheritance.
<u>Id</u>. at 285. Jurisdictions differ on which ancestor is of import in the analysis – the ancestor from whom the decedent received the property, or the original ancestor who acquired the property (the “first purchaser”). Washington courts have aligned with
the majority of jurisdictions rejecting the "first purchaser" doctrine, and have held that “the ancestor whose blood is to be considered is the one from whom the property immediately came to the intestate.”
<u>Id</u>. at 278 . Where property is identifiable as ancestral property, the current statute operates to exclude half-bloods from intestate inheritance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric C. Nelsen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 28, 2020 10:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> wsbar trust <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] half sister an heir by descent?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I have an estate where decedent did not have a will.; no wife and no kids and no parents surviving.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">He has one full brother and a half sister. The half sister is a daughter of his mom but not his dad.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I assume both the full and half sibling inherit equally. This is because under 11.04.015(2)(c) “if the intestate not be survived by issue or by either parent, then those issue of the parent or
parents who survive the intestate” and both half and full sibblings are issue of the parent.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">But I pause after I read 11.04.035, and it isn’t something I have had experience with.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Is she as surviving half sister “kindred of the half blood” who inherits; or is she excluded because the decedent brother is not “her ancestor or kindred of her ancestor”? I would guess that
a half sister is “kindred” of both her parents and therefore is a “kindred of such ancestor’s blood”? But it doesn’t really work between siblings like it would if the inheritance came from a parent ancestor. ??</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Thanks</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Josh</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#004080">Joshua F. Grant</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#004080"><br>
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