<div dir="ltr">Hello Listmates,<div><br><div>I'm representing a surviving spouse who has been able to successfully transfer all assets (so far) on the basis of a community property agreement. However, the decedent's employer is insisting on issuing the last paycheck to the Estate of the decedent.  I've not come across this before as I nearly always handle cases where we are opening a probate. 

Obviously we don't want to open a probate just to cash a last paycheck.

 </div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to hear your ideas and strategies to:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Convince the employer to honor the CPA and issue the check to the surviving spouse; or </div><div><br></div><div>2) Allow the surviving spouse to cash a check made out to the estate without letters testamentary. Could it be as simple as presenting the paycheck to the bank with the CPA? I'm not sure if  <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=30A.22.190"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">RCW </span><font color="#2b674d" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">30A.22.190</span></font></a> will help because the check is made out to the estate rather than the decedent.</div><div><br></div><div>3) Other approaches?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#45818e"><b>Laura Latta<br>Law Office of Laura Latta PLLC</b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666">she/her</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Phone (206) 841-2344</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><a href="http://www.LauraLatta.com" target="_blank">www.LauraLatta.com</a></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">PO Box 82356</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Kenmore, WA 98028</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#134f5c"><u></u> </font><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#444444">NOTICE:  This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying it or disclosing its contents to others.</font></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>