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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You can represent both of them in creating a CIR agreement (similar concepts to pre-/post nuptial agreements, full disclosure of assets and debts). Their individual Wills may reference/restate the CIR agreement.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best practice is to get a signed acknowledgment & waiver of the conflict of interest between the parties before receiving financial info. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Even with that, one of the parties must have advice from an independent attorney before executing the agreement and an attorney certification. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The certification of both attys are then attached to the CIR agreement. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Enforcement of the CIR agreement is dependent on the fairness doctrine and the procedural requirements of the antenuptial agreement. My 5 cents</div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 02:28:41 PM PDT, Joshua McKarcher <josh@mckarcherlaw.com> wrote:
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Hi Tom,</span></p>
<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">I truly value your perspective and want to learn here: Why does Paul’s original description scream risk that is so far beyond planning that I have always assumed planners
do for unmarried couples or married couples with kids from prior marriages (even one they wish to disinherit)? I do not serve a ton of CIR couples, so it seems as though there may be something I am missing.
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Are you willing to elaborate? If they are willing to pay the fees necessary to address the risks and “cabin them in,” I am not understanding why this is so unusually risky.
But I learn every day! </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:UI sans-serif;">😊</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;"></span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">All my best, Josh</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Westbrook<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Long Term CIR</p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">I realize that I am on old guy, but my advice here is “run Forrest run”……………</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">This has too many traps and is the amount you get paid really worth the risk?</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Tom</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua McKarcher<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Long Term CIR</p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Hmmm. I better test myself here: An unmarried couple doing joint estate planning is forming a joint representation no different than a married couple, or two business partners
. . . right? No secrets, and if they fight and can’t solve it, they both lose you.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">This is not a pre-nup; it’s two people planning together. You can’t keep secrets of Client 1 from Client 2 (which I bring up right after saying “Hello” in my conference
room, before I care if they’re married or not), etc., but otherwise, I’m not sure I follow what conflicts there are here.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Aside from that, however, here this couple seems probably very likely to have a CIR that would indeed produce “spousal-heirship-like results” after the death of one of them.
But by planning they will make that complication largely irrelevant by doing it in wills or a trust. I think?</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">And they will have the benefit of lifetime powers for finances and health care, which could be unpleasant surprises for them if certain family “disapprove.” (The pre-<i>Obergefell</i>
same-sex couple problem.)</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">At most you may wish to ask them if they want the documents (if it gives property to the other of them) auto-revoked upon physical separation or “something” equivalent to
legal separation or divorce. (I have no idea if Washington allows CIRs to be dissolved by a court filing like a legal separation or divorce. I’m just sitting here realizing I’ve never had the situation present itself.)</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Good luck!</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">Best, Josh
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal">Yes separate estate plans work; waiver of conflicts is harder because no one really knows what they ‘own’.</p>
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<p class="yiv8674584039MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;">I received a call by a man who wants to do estate planning for him and his wife of thirty years. Prior kids on both sides. At the end of the call setting the appointment,
he sort of chuckled and said “Well, I just call her my wife. We never married.” Uh-oh. So, if memory serves me, I don’t think you can inherit under a CIR. So, do I just prepare estate plans for them as if they are separate people? Is this a conflict that
I can even “disclose and waive” around? Rumor is that the man was hesitant in even going to an attorney. Any advice would be great.
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