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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Need only publish in the county of residence, not the county where the probate is filed. You used to have to publish in both, but the statute was amended in 2005 to eliminate the redundancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Compare Laws 2005, c 97, Section 4 of
<a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1125.SL.pdf?cite=2005%20c%2097%20%C2%A7%204">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">amending RCW 11.40.020 to its current reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I got really tripped up once by this statute shortly after it was amended—it has clear directions in 1(a) and (b), and if you don't read all the way to down to the bottom, you don't catch the "but
if" of Section 2 that tells you to ignore 1(a) and (b) if the probate is filed in a different county from decedent's residence. That's just a terrible way to structure a statute, if I may whine for a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></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>Jennifer Gellner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2020 4:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] PUBLISH IN TWO COUNTIES?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Dear All:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Client resided and died in Lewis County and probate opened in King County. In reading RCW 11.40.020(2):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">(2) If the decedent was a resident of the state of Washington at the time of death and probate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">proceedings are commenced in a county other than the county of the decedent's residence, then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">instead of the requirements under subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section, the personal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">representative shall cause the notice to creditors in substantially the form set forth in RCW
</span><b><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#2B674D">11.40.030<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">to be published once each week for three successive weeks in a legal newspaper in the county of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">decedent's residence and shall file the notice with the superior court of the county in which the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black">probate proceedings were commenced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">In the KCBA Probate CLE last Friday, I felt the presenters made it clear that you had to publish in BOTH county of residence and county of probate case, but when I read the statute, I was okay to have published
only in Lewis county where D resided and passed, and filed the notice in the county of the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Are people typically publishing in both to be careful? Is there some other reason?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Let me know – thanks!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jennifer A. Gellner, LL.M. <o:p></o:p></p>
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