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<span style="" class="elementToProof">I’ll add a dissenting opinion. Why are you recording the death certificate at all? If/when the property is sold, the title company is going to do its own investigatoin, and you probably would just tell them one of the trustees
died and give the title company the death certificate, and they can record it if they want to or not. Given that, I do not routinely record the death certificate if property is in a living trust.</span></p>
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<span style="" class="elementToProof">If it bothers the client to have the Deceased spouse’s name on the property tax bill, you can just call the County Treasurer/Assessor and have them change it (they don’t usually require a REETA to make a change to the
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<span style="" class="elementToProof">My bias is to not make things a permanent public record unless necessary. In this case, it is not necessary to record the death certificate after the first spouse dies.</span></p>
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<span style="">You would be required to file the pour-over <span class="GramE">will, if</span> any exists. That is often all we file for public record on death of first spouse.
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<span style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Client and his deceased spouse were co-trustee’s of their RLT. When recording the spouse’s death certificate, should a cover sheet be recorded with the legal description of the property(ies)
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