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<p class="MsoNormal">I have never known missing family members to be an obstacle to getting a guardian appointed—that’s often why professional guardians are necessary. The statute requires you provide notice to the last known address of children/spouse, if
any, not that you locate them—I think you just do what you can. If you’ve spent time trying to locate these family members to no avail, I think that’s exactly what you tell the Court. I have never known the Court to require that notice be published, but
I am not sure what County you are in. In my mind it makes no sense to waste the AIP’s precious resources on publication for a family member that is not part of the individual’s life.
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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>Cody Moore<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Serving Notice of Hearing in Guardianship<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a basic adult guardianship, however the family cannot be located.
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<p class="MsoNormal">RCW 11.88.040(2) requires notice of the hearing be sent or served to the family, if any. Here there is family, but we cannot find them anywhere.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone encountered this? I presume we could get an order to publish, but haven’t done that in this context.<o:p></o:p></p>
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