<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Good morning -</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I have a probate started in Spokane County in January as an intestate estate.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Surviving spouse (husband as of 2019) was appointed PR.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Now, the decedent’s father just found her original Will from 1998.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I am not sure what to do with the Will - here are my issues.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. The Will has the decedent’s social security number in it.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. The Will names her father as the PR.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. There are provisions that do not apply now due to the omitted spouse statute and other issues, such as:</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a. A superwill-type provision that says joint tenancy accounts are to be part of estate (first, the joint accounts are community and second, the joint accounts were opened after the Will (11.11.020(4); and</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b. Money for kids to be held in Trust until age 30 (kids are over 30);</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">What are your thoughts?</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="E727DEC3-5C8B-43DE-8D2E-19E988197F32" src="cid:C79E98F6-A4CF-4882-BFFF-2416315E6619@hsd1.wa.comcast.net" class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" class=""><i class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></i></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" class=""><i class="">Amy J. Goertz, J.D.</i></font></div><div class=""><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" class=""><i class="">Goertz & Lambrecht PLLC</i></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="mailto:amyjgoertz@icloud.com" class="">amyjgoertz@icloud.com</a> </div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">1.888.926.2607 phone<br class="">1.877.684.1627 fax<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Address for correspondence:</div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">2829 S. Grand Blvd., Suite 303<br class="">Spokane, WA 99203 </div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Additional office locations:</div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">510 Bell Street<br class="">Edmonds, WA 98020</div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Goertz & Lambrecht PLLC</div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="http://www.goertzlambrecht.com/" class="">www.goertzlambrecht.com</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">
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