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<div>Yes, that is correct. I just counseled such a client (with a not insignificant $2 million+ estate) that a simple trust disinheriting his unknown cousins and naming his preferred beneficiaries would save a lot of trouble later on when notice of probate
of his will is required to be served on these disinherited cousins. He is apparently confident in his own analysis that since he hasn’t known them forever, they have no business in his estate, ergo it will all magically work out. But he would like a professional
to agree to serve as PR (vs trustee). </div>
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<div>I’m hoping some pixie dust drops from heaven when his PR and the PR’s attorney (not me) are tasked with that unwelcome duty.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Good luck!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best, Josh </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I have my first intestate estate where it appears the estate goes to first cousins. Then, if any of those first cousins do not survive, to their descendants.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Not married, no children, no parents, no grandparents or siblings living. Is that the interpretation of others? I am having a really difficult time finding these children of first cousins.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.04.015">11.04.015</a></span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Descent and distribution of real and personal estate.</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The net estate of a person dying intestate, or that portion thereof with respect to which the person shall have died intestate, shall descend subject to the provisions of RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.04.250"><b>11.04.250</b></a> and <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.02.070"><b>11.02.070</b></a>,
and shall be distributed as follows:</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(2) Shares of others than surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner. The share of the net estate not distributable to the surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, or the entire
net estate if there is no surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, shall descend and be distributed as follows:</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(a) To the issue of the intestate; if they are all in the same degree of kinship to the intestate, they shall take equally, or if of unequal degree, then those of more remote degree shall take by representation.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(b) If the intestate not be survived by issue, then to the parent or parents who survive the intestate.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(c) If the intestate not be survived by issue or by either parent, then to those issue of the parent or parents who survive the intestate; if they are all in the same degree of kinship to the intestate,
they shall take equally, or, if of unequal degree, then those of more remote degree shall take by representation.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(d) If the intestate not be survived by issue or by either parent, or by any issue of the parent or parents who survive the intestate, then to the grandparent or grandparents who survive the intestate; if
both maternal and paternal grandparents survive the intestate, the maternal grandparent or grandparents shall take one-half and the paternal grandparent or grandparents shall take one-half.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; color:red">(e) If the intestate not be survived by issue or by either parent, or by any issue of the parent or parents or by any grandparent or grandparents, then to those issue of any grandparent or grandparents
who survive the intestate; taken as a group, the issue of the maternal grandparent or grandparents shall share equally with the issue of the paternal grandparent or grandparents, also taken as a group; within each such group, all members share equally if they
are all in the same degree of kinship to the intestate, or, if some be of unequal degree, then those of more remote degree shall take by representation.</span></p>
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