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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I read a case quite a while ago, around 2007. If I recall correctly, it was a WA Appellate case out of Yakima. I was interested in it because it involved the procedure for extending a ten year judgment a second ten years. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The reason I mention that is restitution ordered by a court in a criminal case is reduced to a judgment. I would think that would make your decedent (and thereafter his probate estate) a judgment creditor, making the judgment an asset of the probate estate. There are more than one way to dispose of the judgment asset. If the daughter was still in line to actually receive an inheritance it might make perfect sense to treat the discharge as part of her distribution. But if, under OR law she is treated like under our “Slayer Statute” as having predeceased the client because of financial exploitation, I do not see a legal basis to offset the debt, because the judgment debtor is receiving nothing to offset it against. Distributing it to her children may be the practical equivalent of offset because they won’t take action to enforce it, but the judgment still stands and would affect her creditability (if she has any). I think your instincts are correct that the judgment is like any other asset. There’s no reason it can’t be distributed to the other adult children of the decedent. Theoretically it may also be possible to sell it at a discount to a collection agency I suppose. If you distribute it to the other children, the issue will be how to value it. I’m not a bankruptcy expert, so I would wonder whether she could discharge the judgment. Not sure about that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John J. Sullivan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Philip N. Jones<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 14, 2023 2:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] criminal restitution<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A colleague of mine has an Oregon probate for a decedent whose daughter was criminally convicted of various financial abuse crimes and ordered to pay restitution to the decedent (who was then alive) through a Washington superior court. The decedent has now died, and we are trying to determine if the unpaid balance of the restitution is an Oregon probate asset that could be offset against the daughter’s inheritance. The situation is complicated by a statute that prohibits her from inheriting, so her share of the estate will pass to her adult children. If we offset the restitution debt against her share of the inheritance passing to her children, then she will end up getting benefit (debt relief) from her father’s estate. So we are thinking that the estate will be divided among the family members other than the daughter, and the daughter will still owe the debt, which will be assigned to the other family members as part of their inheritance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>If any of you have thoughts (or cites) pertaining to this weird situation, please let me know, either online or offline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Phil Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Philip N. 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