<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It looks like Ray can be distinguished from this case/</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">fact pattern, because you're dealing with a divorcee </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">and a stepchild. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As opposed to the first spouse being married to the </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">decedent at Spouse #1's time of death.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I think <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-indent:48px">Smith's Estate </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-indent:48px">would control-unless it's been</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-indent:48px">overturned. Older statute, but same fact pattern.</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:39 PM Josh Grant <<a href="mailto:jgrant@accima.com" target="_blank">jgrant@accima.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font size="4">Thanks Eric. I agree that it should apply to
intestacy.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Josh</font></div>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)">Joshua F.
Grant</span></strong><span style="color:rgb(0,64,128)"><br></span><span style="color:black"><img title="advocates" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px;" border="0" alt="advocates" src="cid:17acbbba47f81e195781" width="207" height="43"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)">P.
O. Box 619<br>Wilbur, WA 99185<br>509 647 5578</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="eric@sayrelawoffices.com">Eric Nelsen</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 21, 2021 11:08 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">WSBA Probate & Trust
Listserv</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Intestate succession or
escheat?</div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The WSBA’s EP, Probate, and Trust Administration Deskbook
refers to the statute as though it applies in <b><i>all</i></b> circumstances
where a stepchild could inherit in order to avoid escheat upon the death of the
surviving spouse. The only early case I can find that cites the statute is <u>In
re Smith’s Estate</u>, 49 Wn.2d 22 (1956), which mentions it but doesn’t have a
holding relevant to its terms.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most recent case is <u>In re Estate of Ray</u>, 15 Wn.App.2d
353 (Wash.App. Div. 1, 2020). Again the holding isn’t relevant to the question,
because the appellant there was a child of the decedent’s first wife, but that
marriage ended in divorce and the appellant’s mother was still living—thus there
was no passing of property from his mother to the decedent at all, whether by
gift, will, or intestacy. The appellant was arguing that he should still inherit
because the general legislative scheme was to allow stepchildren to always
inherit in order to avoid escheat. (He lost.) But as with the WSBA Deskbook,
<u>Ray</u> again talks about the statute as if it made no distinction between
testacy and intestacy. It’s just dicta but it’s something I
suppose.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If there’s any hope of getting an explanation, I think you’d
have to go back to review the old Remington’s Revised Statute, RRS § 1356-1,
that appears to be the source of the current statute. Since the statute appears
to have been wholly re-enacted in Laws 1917, and RRS was first published in
1932, this might be a dead end.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another possibility is to search Ballinger’s Code of 1897, to
see if it has such a statute. It contains cross-references to codes of other
states with similar provisions. (Thanks to Kelly Kunsch and his exhaustive
explanation and description of early codes at 12 UPS Law Review 285
(1989).)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric C. Nelsen<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sayre Law Offices, PLLC<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1417 31st Ave South<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">206-625-0092<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">eric@sayrelawoffices.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>
<<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric
Nelsen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 21, 2021 9:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA
Probate & Trust Listserv
<<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Intestate
succession or escheat?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Josh—Honestly, I don’t know. I agree that the statute appears
to literally say that, but I would want to dig into the legislative amendments
and find some kind of extended discussion of the statute before I was
certain.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The intent of it seems pretty clear, to give the children of
a first marriage their inheritance if their parent dies before the second spouse
and the second spouse has no heirs. Given that purpose, it doesn’t make much
sense to me to make a distinction between testacy, intestacy, and inter vivos
gifts, and then make it only apply under testacy and for inter vivos gifts. Both
of those scenarios imply that the parent <i>intended</i> to give to the second
spouse and disinherit the children; so why would the statute reverse that?
Whereas intestacy can easily happen by accident, which seems to be a more
appropriate scenario for the statute to make sure the order of death doesn’t
accidentally disinherit the kids from the first marriage.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All of which means, I’d want to look at the whole legislative
history and try to figure out when and why this statute was enacted in the first
place.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eric C. Nelsen<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sayre Law Offices, PLLC<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1417 31st Ave South<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seattle WA 98144-3909<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">206-625-0092<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">eric@sayrelawoffices.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background:aqua">Covid-19 Update - </span></b>All
attorneys are working remotely during regular business hours and are available
via email and by phone. Videoconferencing also is available. Signing of estate
planning documents can be completed and will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Please direct mail and deliveries to the Seattle office.<u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a>wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>
<<a>wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh
Grant<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate
& Trust Listserv <<a>wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b>
Re: [WSBAPT] Intestate succession or escheat?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Jayne, or
Eric? Do you agree that if there is no will that it doesn’t
apply?</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Josh</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,64,128)">Joshua
F. Grant</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)"><br></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><img id="gmail-m_1130162514832897996gmail-m_513684895974225051Picture_x0020_1" style="height: 0.447in; width: 2.156in;" border="0" alt="advocates" src="cid:17acbbba47f4cff312" width="207" height="43"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,64,128)">P. O. Box 619<br>Wilbur, WA 99185<br>509 647
5578</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Jayne
Gilbert <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Monday,
July 19, 2021 9:53 PM<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> WSBA
Probate & Trust Listserv <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Re:
[WSBAPT] Intestate succession or
escheat?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">I have
researched/read this Statute, but have not considered it's
<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">application to a
fact pattern like the one posed in the question <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">Most
Interesting!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">On Mon, Jul 19,
2021 at 9:49 PM Jayne Gilbert <<a>jgilbertatty@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">Eric spot on as
usual!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">I too never
knew this statute existed.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">On Wed, Jul 14,
2021 at 4:10 PM Josh Grant <<a>jgrant@accima.com</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Thanks
Eric,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I have
never seen this statute.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I wonder in
my case where there are no wills, whether or not that would preclude our use
of this statute. “.....</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">leaving
a will whereby all or substantially all of the deceased's property passes to
the surviving spouse ...”</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Josh</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,64,128)">Joshua
F. Grant</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)"><br></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><img id="gmail-m_1130162514832897996gmail-m_513684895974225051Picture_x0020_2" style="height: 0.447in; width: 2.156in;" border="0" alt="advocates" src="cid:17acbbba47f4cff312" width="207" height="43"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,64,128)">P. O. Box 619<br>Wilbur, WA 99185<br>509 647
5578</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">
Eric Nelsen <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 3:59 PM<u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">
WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:black"> Re:
[WSBAPT] Intestate succession or
escheat?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">It’s hard to believe, but there’s a
statute for that, <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.04.095" target="_blank">RCW 11.04.095</a>, that covers if stepmom died without any
heirs:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.04.095" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(43,103,77)">11.04.095</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h3>
<h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">Inheritance from
stepparent avoids escheat.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black">If
a person dies leaving a surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and
issue by a former spouse or former domestic partner and leaving a will
whereby all or substantially all of the deceased's property passes to the
surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner or having before death
conveyed all or substantially all his or her property to the surviving
spouse or surviving domestic partner, and afterwards the latter dies without
heirs and without disposing of his or her property by will so that except
for this section the same would all escheat, the issue of the spouse or
domestic partner first deceased who survive the spouse or domestic partner
last deceased shall take and inherit from the spouse or domestic partner
last deceased the property so acquired by will or conveyance or the
equivalent thereof in money or other property; if such issue are all in the
same degree of kinship to the spouse or domestic partner first deceased they
shall take equally, or, if of unequal degree, then those of more remote
degree shall take by representation with respect to such spouse or such
domestic partner first deceased.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The problem is that the wife almost
certainly has collateral heirs, even if she had no siblings. If her parents
had siblings, it’s virtually certain there’s an odd cousin or twelve who are
entitled to the estate, as issue of the decedent’s grandparents. <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.04.015" target="_blank">RCW 11.04.015(2)(e)</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Eric<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Eric C. Nelsen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Sayre Law Offices,
PLLC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<<a>wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh
Grant<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 14, 2021 3:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> wsbar
trust <<a>wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT]
Intestate succession or escheat?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I have a PC whose Dad died in 2011
and then his Dad’s wife died in 2012 leaving no children. Neither H or
W had a will. There is/was a CP house. PC wants to inherit the
house.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I don’t think there are any heirs of
the wife, like parents, siblings or nephews or nieces, & she never had
children; but that would take an investigator to figure out.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">But does it matter to PC?
Because his dad’s wife inherited 100% of the house by intestate
succession instantly, if there are no heirs located or known, wouldn’t this
escheat to the state?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">This is not a valuable house and
there are no funds to hire an investigator.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,64,128)">Joshua
F. Grant</span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)"><br></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><img id="gmail-m_1130162514832897996gmail-m_513684895974225051gmail-m_-2588670859552740726gmail-m_1950694480205455801Picture_x0020_1" style="height: 0.447in; width: 2.156in;" border="0" alt="advocates" src="cid:17acbbba47f4cff312" width="207" height="43"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,64,128)">P. O. Box 619<br>Wilbur, WA
99185<br>509 647 5578</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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