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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Procedure for approving Personal Representative's creditor's claim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Regrettably, I do think it has to be filed as a separate TEDRA. RCW 11.40.140 was amended in 1999 to require following TEDRA procedures, at a time when RCW 11.96A.090(2) allowed
filing a TEDRA petition under the existing case number. But that statute was revised in 2013 to always require a new action for a TEDRA petition. Unintended consequence, probably.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Re service, my rule-of-thumb analysis is that I personally serve anyone against whom I am potentially wanting a personal judgment. Everybody else who is simply interested in
the estate administration in some way, I give notice by mail under RCW 11.96A.110.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Under that rule of thumb, for a PR’s creditor claim, I don’t think personal service to anybody is necessary. The requested relief is just an order approving the claim against
the Estate, to be administered with the other claims. No judgment against anybody would issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Procedure for approving Personal Representative's creditor's claim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Have any of you sought court approval for a PR’s creditors claim? I know the probate code you follow the procedures under TEDRA; but do we really have to file a separate action? If so, who must be personally
served? Its one thing to mail notice of hearing to all heirs, but personally serve them?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jeff Davis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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