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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 19, 2021 1:20:26 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] bank account of deceased</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] bank account of deceased</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Haven’t run into this one before. Deceased left a bank account with Sound Credit Union in Tacoma with about $46k in it. Decedent was married to husband A and divorced in 2012. Dissolution Decree
left the bank account to Decedent. The bank account was in both names of Decedent and husband A and husband A was the named beneficiary. In 2018 Decedent was remarried but she never took any action to change the beneficiary of the bank account. Decedent passed
unexpectedly in a private airplane accident last July along with her new husband B. Sound Credit says they will honor the terms of the Disso Decree but since the bank account names husband A as beneficiary, he is the one entitled to the funds.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do any of you know if there is a provision like RCW 11.12.051 that also terminates any non-testamentary gifts to a beneficiary? Seems like equity would follow that line but as we all know,
banks and equity are not a good match.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span></p>
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