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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I have an interesting problem. Every day is a new one. If anyone on this listserve handles animal or dog cases, you probably have been through this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I need to get a copy of the autopsy of a deceased dog (necropsy) owned by the decedent prior to his death. Long story short but the girlfriend would not turn the father’s dog
over to the surviving children by right as owners of separate property and I drafted a motion to the court but right before setting for hearing, the girlfriend notified my client/PR of Estate that the dog died. It was a highly suspicious death of this dog.
Girlfriend was not registered domestic partner. The girlfriend had her own dog and it is still living.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">A necropsy was done and now the Vet won’t release the results to my client, PR of estate of her father. Has anyone prepared a SDT for a necropsy and would be willing to share?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I did not find any statute addressing this other than below on autopsies…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">RCW 68.50.101<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Autopsy, postmortem—Who may authorize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Autopsy or postmortem may be performed in any case where authorization has been given by a member of one of the following classes of persons in the following order of priority:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(1) The surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(2)
<span style="color:red">Any child of the decedent who is eighteen years of age or older;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">RCW 68.50.105<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Autopsies, postmortems—Reports and records confidential—Exceptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(1) Reports and records of autopsies or postmortems shall be confidential, except that the following persons may examine and obtain copies of any such report or record:
<span style="color:red">The personal representative of the decedent as defined in RCW 11.02.005, any family member,
</span>the attending physician or advanced registered nurse practitioner, the prosecuting attorney or law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction, public health officials, the department of labor and industries in cases in which it has an interest under RCW
68.50.103, or the secretary of the department of children, youth, and families or his or her designee in cases being reviewed under RCW 74.13.640.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(2)(a) Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in this section regarding the dissemination of records and reports of autopsies or postmortems, nor the exemptions referenced
under RCW 42.56.240(1), nothing in this chapter prohibits a coroner, medical examiner, or his or her designee, from publicly discussing his or her findings as to any death subject to the jurisdiction of his or her office where actions of a law enforcement
officer or corrections officer have been determined to be a proximate cause of the death, except as provided in (b) of this subsection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(b) A coroner, medical examiner, or his or her designee may not publicly discuss his or her findings outside of formal court or inquest proceedings if there is a pending or
active criminal investigation, or a criminal or civil action, concerning a death that has commenced prior to January 1, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">(3) The coroner, the medical examiner, or the attending physician shall, upon request, meet with the family of the decedent to discuss the findings of the autopsy or postmortem.
For the purposes of this section, the term "family" means the surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or any child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, or sister of the decedent, or any person who was guardian of the decedent at the time
of death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dalynne Singleton</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Snohomish, WA 98291</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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