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Take a look at whether the PR can have personal liability on the hazardous material issue.</div>
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I recall that I accepted an appointment as Successor Trustee with assets of commercial warehouses in an industrial area.</div>
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The Dept of Ecology demanded a clean-up and threatened an assessment of personal liability against me. I retained counsel to reperrsent me and passed the cost onto the Trust. </div>
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That was the state making threats and your demand is from the County so it may involve different authority.</div>
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But if any potential personal liability to the PR, your path forward is clear., Hazard clean-up can be extremely expensive.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Doesn’t specific house bequest vest immediately upon death ? <br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Father dies sleaving two children .Each gets a house and 50/50 of remainder. One house has hazardous materials. County has filed a complaint to abate the nuisance and a mandatory injunction of the nuisance
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