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<p class="MsoNormal">A personal representative owes the following fiduciary duties (RCW 11.104B.050 as well as common law):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Duty of good faith;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Duty of care- utilize the skill, judgment and diligence with would be employed by an ordinarily cautious and prudent person in the management of her own business affairs;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Duty of Loyalty;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Duty to administer an estate impartially towards all beneficiaries unless Will instructs otherwise.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to be clear, I represent a beneficiary <u>who has requested information</u> (both by filing special request for proceedings and directly via counsel) regarding the status of the sale of the property and other transactions and the PR
has responded with silence or disclosure after the transaction is completed. I believe this violates one or more of the above duties, imposed on even a nonintervention PR.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I don’t mean to be contrary but where is the legal requirement or legal citation that a PR
<i>must</i> keep the heirs reasonably informed? I only know of the request for a Special Notice, the right to receive the inventory, and the right to request an accounting at the end. I guess you can try to remove the PR for malfeasance but I doubt failure
to adequately communicate rises to the level of malfeasance. Before I get flamed here, I know that a PR
<i>should</i> use full disclosure via the heirs as the standard to avoid problems BUT I’m asking about the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I have a similar situation and I filed a Request for Special Notice of Proceedings with a list of items requesting notice for the mentioned issues. That was included in the Request.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I think that gives you a stronger basis for the motion. My experience is once they do this, they rarely like to comply. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone have recent motion practice filings addressing a personal representative who believes because he has nonintervention powers, he does not have to keep the estate’s beneficiaries reasonably informed about the status of the estate despite
requests for information. For example, not disclosing to the beneficiaries that an offer was accepted on the estate’s farm property and of the closing date?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interested in hearing how judges/commissioners are addressing this attitude that nonintervention authority means one can ignore requests for information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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