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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello listmates,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am hoping one or more of you can give me some direction on my situation. I am working on a Petition for Probate where the decedent was in the process of updating his will, and during that process he made alterations directly on his existing
will. Unfortunately he passed away before the new will was executed, so now we will be probating the marked-up original.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because he wrote on the will in anticipation of doing an update, we can make a good argument he didn’t intend to die intestate. And because the alterations make giant changes to the testamentary scheme, I don’t believe the court would
accept them as valid changes without the required formalities of signature with witnesses; under the doctrine of dependent relative revocation the will should be probated as originally written. We have a clean scan of the existing will to submit along with
the altered original, so the court will be able to read it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My question is this: if we are just asking the court to admit the will without giving effect to the alterations, and appoint the named PR (this provision was NOT altered), do we need to do anything special regarding notice to heirs/beneficiaries
beforehand?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sara Longley<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sara D. Longley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Senior Attorney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ivy Law Group, PLLC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1734 NW Market Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seattle, WA 98107<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Phone: (206) 706-2909<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:sara@ivylawgroup.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">sara@ivylawgroup.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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