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<div>Allow me to embarrass myself (further?) by asking any litigator (or lawyer who has had to think about the question as I now realize I never have) on the chain:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">No one is obligated to answer. I’m on a plane, so I have time for such questions. ;)</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 4, 2023 2:20:13 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Does CR 6(a) give probate creditors an extra day to file a claim if the last day falls on a weekend</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Josh thinks it is bad law; so do I; but it still operates until coa or supremes overrule it.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Does CR 6(a) give probate creditors an extra day to file a claim if the last day falls on a weekend</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wait – the 3 day rule does not apply to TEDRA – how did I not know this?! I just moved a hearing to account for a second mailing.</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua McKarcher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 3, 2023 3:36 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Does CR 6(a) give probate creditors an extra day to file a claim if the last day falls on a weekend</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Well, Chandra, I am glad you asked this. In summary, I’m wondering if the answer is “In Division I you may win, if Rule CR6(a) was
<u>not</u> amended as noted below in 2015 after the 2013 <i>Stover</i> opinion.”</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As a total non-litigator reading your question, at first I thought, “Why on earth would the deadline
<u>not</u> extend to Monday? Don’t they all?” </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Then I discovered
<i>Stover</i> (<a href="https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/695461.pdf">https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/695461.pdf</a>), which I’d never had to read or think about before.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Go figure the concept of “special proceedings” making 6(e)’s “3-day for mail rule”
<u>not</u> apply in TEDRA matters. Great! Surprising; weird; but great! Estates get “greater finality” than non-estates, by a measure of a few days. Why not?)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So then based on the Court’s description of 6(a) being about periods less than 7 days, I’m unclear if 6(a) contained the quoted language below in 2013 as it does now.
(CR 6 indicates it was amended on April 28, 2015. I cannot quickly find the history on CR 6, including what was amended in 2015.)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But, in theory, if this sentence was added after
<i>Stover</i>, then (in theory), you have a harder case perhaps, because maybe the rule was amended to avoid
<i>Stover</i>-like outcomes or something: </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next
day which is neither a Saturday, a Sunday nor a legal holiday.”</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CR 6(a) applies to “any applicable statute.” Division I
<i>seems</i> to say the civil rules don’t apply anyhow, so never mind 6(a)’s time computation rules.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So, it seems like “your” fight would be over whether the creditor’s lawsuit would be a TEDRA action (I assume so); whether Div. I was correct that those are “special
proceedings” under CR 81(a) (I assume Div. I thinks it was correct); and whether, regardless of all that, no other
<b><u>statute</u></b> on the books would make any statutory deadline ending on a Sunday extend to the next court/business day.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’m intrigued. When you find an answer, PLEASE share it.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best, Josh
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chandra Lewnau<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 3, 2023 2:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Discussion List <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Does CR 6(a) give probate creditors an extra day to file a claim if the last day falls on a weekend</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">For the first time I have a probate where the creditor deadline for filing a claim fell on a Sunday and the creditor filed the claim exactly one day late on the Monday. (The PR was served on time.) Before I have the PR reject the claim,
can anyone verify that CR 6(a) does not apply to the notice provisions of RCW 11.40.051 and 30 days means 30 days? I have seen some cases (ex. in re Stover) but nothing specifically on point.<br clear="all">
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