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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Meagan,
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hiring an heir search company, I’m curious what others would think about asking the court to appoint a probate guardian ad litem to receive the notice of appointment and look out for the interests of the missing heirs. It’s not a perfect solution. The missing
heirs are not technically “incapacitated” under RCW 11.76.080 and 11.88.010, but it might be a way of dealing with this situation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Meagan Rourke<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:38 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Probate notice to heirs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing:0px"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Meagan S. Rourke</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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