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<p class="MsoNormal">I believe the true problem is that our intestate inheritance statutes are soooooo out of date.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Nelsen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 20, 2022 3:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Slayer statute application to inheritance from third party?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I agree with Karen, which usually is a good thing, but an unfortunate result in this case. The statute is pretty direct in stating that the “decedent” means the person who was slain or financially abused by the slayer/abuser. If the decedent
wasn’t directly the wronged party, the statutes do not appear to apply.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.84.010">11.84.010</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Definitions.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As used in this chapter:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(1) "Abuser" means any person who participates, either as a principal or an accessory before the fact, in the willful and unlawful financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(2) "Decedent" means:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(a) Any person whose life is taken by a slayer; or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(b) Any deceased person who, at any time during life in which he or she was a vulnerable adult, was the victim of financial exploitation by an abuser.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(3) "Financial exploitation" has the same meaning as provided in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=74.34.020"><b>74.34.020</b></a>, as enacted or hereafter amended.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(4) "Property" includes any real and personal property and any right or interest therein.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(5) "Slayer" means any person who participates, either as a principal or an accessory before the fact, in the willful and unlawful killing of any other person as determined under RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.84.140"><b>11.84.140</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(6) "Vulnerable adult" has the same meaning as provided in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=74.34.020"><b>74.34.020</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That said, I think there might be a long-shot chance of getting a court to agree that RCW 11.84.030 can be read to include any later inheritance from other relatives that, if the slain parent were still alive, would have been inherited
by them and not by the slayer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.84.030">11.84.030</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Slayer or abuser deemed to predecease decedent.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The slayer or abuser shall be deemed to have predeceased the decedent as to property
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">which would have passed from the decedent</span> or his or her estate
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">to the slayer or abuser under the statutes of descent and distribution</span> or have been acquired by statutory right as surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner or under any agreement made with the
decedent under the provisions of RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=26.16.120"><b>26.16.120</b></a> as it now exists or is hereafter amended.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric C. Nelsen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">
wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen E. Boxx<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 20, 2022 1:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Slayer statute application to inheritance from third party?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The nephew is inheriting as intestate heir to your decedent so the slayer statute won’t apply. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Apr 20, 2022, at 1:29 PM, Sara Longley <<a href="mailto:sara@ivylawgroup.com">sara@ivylawgroup.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello listmates,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have searched the case law and I am scratching my head and hoping someone can help me out. I have a probate where the decedent’s intestate estate would pass in equal shares to her two siblings. However, one of the siblings was murdered
several years earlier by her son, the decedent’s nephew. Under the intestacy statute the nephew would take his mother’s share, but my reading of the Slayer Statute (RCW 11.84) is that the nephew is barred from inheriting because of the prohibition on his
profiting from his crime.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The statute focuses on a slayer or abuser inheriting directly from the decedent they killed or abused, and all the case law I have found is based on such facts. Is a slayer also barred from inheriting from a third party by reason of his
crime? That is my interpretation of RCW 11.84.030, but I would appreciate any advice or input the group can offer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sara Longley<o:p></o:p></p>
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