<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Seeking advice about providing notice of appointment to heirs who cannot be located and might be incarcerated. Decedent died testate and the Will names his son (our client) as Personal Representative. Decedent has two other sons who are disinherited in the Will - Decedent had a restraining order against them and our client believes that one or both of them might be incarcerated. Our client is not in contact with his two brothers at all and does not know their whereabouts. <div><br></div><div>We have searched for the brothers in the WA Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and several of the County Jails, but neither of them came up. We are not even sure if the brothers are in WA. What else do we need to do in order to satisfy due diligence to locate the brothers to send them notice of our client's appointment? Do a deeper inmate search and publish notice of some sort? Use an heir search company? We have not encountered this situation before, so any advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance!</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best regards, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Meagan S. Rourke</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><i>Associate Attorney</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ostrem Law, PLLC</font><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">8905 Roosevelt Way NE</font><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Seattle, WA 98115</font><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Phone:  (206) 906-9302</font><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fax:  (866) 444-8109</font><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Email: <a href="mailto:meagan@ostremlaw.com" target="_blank">meagan@ostremlaw.com</a> </font></font><font color="#000000"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><a href="http://www.ostremlaw.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000120"></font>www.ostremlaw.com</font></a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0p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