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<p class="MsoNormal">Listmates:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This was going to be a question, but since I found a workaround it will be a mere rant.
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I opened a probate recently in King County in Seattle. Client took a Certified Copy of the Letters Testamentary to the decedent’s bank – Bank of America.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The bank would not accept the certified copy because … the seal was stamped not raised.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have never run into this particular speed bump and was under the impression the Clerk no longer issued Letters with raised seals.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, for future reference, the Cashier’s Section at the Clerk’s Office tells me that they are aware some banks, and he named a couple, are “butts” about this and so they keep a couple of embossers around. You can, if you specially request
it, obtain certified copies of Letters with a raised seal. Total stupidity. But the first thing I learned in law school was never argue with a bank because the bank always wins.
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