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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If the mom had a claim or debt owed to her before her death, it would survive to the personal representative.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In a wrongful death action brought because of a deceased child, the lien of child support against the father survived and DSHS filed a lien on the father’s inheritance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The mother and father were not married at the time of the child’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">DSHS provided me with citation and research on the lien against the father’s inheritance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The mother was the other person to inherit from the child’s estate so we paid the lien first, then disbursed remaining monies to the parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The mother then was paid by DSHS for the back child support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen A. Brandli<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv' <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Estate of Decedent Owed Child Support fromFormer Spouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">10 years after the youngest child in the order turns 18 for orders entered after July 23, 1989. RCW 4.16.020(3).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Estate of Decedent Owed Child Support fromFormer Spouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">each monthly child support obligation becomes uncollectible after 10 years, so some or even all of the past due child support can not be collected.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Kerry Richards
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:27 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> Re: [WSBAPT] Estate of Decedent Owed
Child Support fromFormer Spouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Jacob:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There should be a distinction between the ongoing obligation to provide support and past due support. I gather from your facts that child support is not an ongoing
obligation, but rather there is an arrearage. If so, then the administrator should file in Superior court a Motion to convert the previous unpaid support to a judgment and then garnish or collect in the best way possible. The past due obligation did not die
with the obligee, and often in orders of child support the can agree the obligation will survive the death of the
<b>obligor,</b> and to the extent not paid can be a claim against the deceased obligor’s estate.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In your case the obligee died, but the past due amount plus simple interest (calculated on every month not paid, so the oldest month owing will have the greatest
amount of simple interest (at 12%) added to the underlying obligation. The support becomes a judgment after each month it is not paid. The motion would be to Confirm the judgment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Yours truly,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Kerry A. Richards, Attorney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marcus Fry<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Estate of Decedent Owed Child Support from Former Spouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jakob:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I haven’t heard of this, but doesn’t child support belong to the children (who are now adults) not the parent (decedent)? I believe the statutory recovery period
is 10 years from the date that the last child turns 18, but I don’t have the cite.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jake Seegmuller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Estate of Decedent Owed Child Support from Former Spouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are administering an estate in Washington with relatively modest assets. The Decedent left two adult sons as heirs. No estate planning was done at the time of her passing. Decedent was owed Child Support well
over $100,000 by her former spouse. A call into DCS with the assigned agent suggested that the debt "dies" with the person who requested the child support. Is this correct? And if not what remedies can the estate take to collect on these owed claims, if any?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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