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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Thanks, Eric for your always sound advice. Would it matter if the SS is subject to a VAPO order restraining him from contacting the decent and her family members as well as the business owned by decedent?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I vote yes. RCW 11.20.070 only says notice to “all persons interested” but I think as a due process matter it’s much better for the client to give notice to the spouse; spouse needs the opportunity to exercise
whatever rights they may have that aren’t waived by the prenup. This gets the issues out into the open where they can be dealt with.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Also, I have learned the hard way in a couple of probates that it doesn’t matter that a dissolution action has been filed—the action terminates immediately on death of a party and if the Decree of Dissolution wasn’t
entered before death, then they’re still married and the survivor is still surviving spouse. Unless the prenup waives all statutory rights as surviving spouse, they can still petition to administer community property, are entitled to notice of any other surviving
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Is it necessary to give notice to surviving spouse about</span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">taking proof</span> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
for</span> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">a lost Will when the surviving spouse is not named in the Will and there is a PreNup that clearly states the SS does not take</span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">under the Will that was executed prior to the marriage? Also, the decedent had started a dissolution of marriage prior to death.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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