<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">List Members - </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is a twist on a prior post that I made and just looking for either confirmation of my plan or advice on how to do it better.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have an estate in King County. One of the two heirs who is a 50/50 of the residual has pulled away from his family entirely. No known forwarding address. Engaged a search company that has had zero luck confirming a new location or contact. My executor is talking with the extended family and has called every number anyone has provided as a possible lead. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">My question - how to close with the idea of giving the Executor the breathing room that he could not come forward years from now and claim problems for lack of notice. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here is my thought. Even though we have NIP, we should just set a hearing date far enough into the future and have a closing hearing. Then get an order, supported by declarations from the search company and my Executor detailing their diligent efforts to find our beneficiary, allowing us to publish the final hearing for six weeks in the local legal newspaper. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Have the hearing, get the order closing, have the Court instruct as to what should be done with this beneficiaries share, and be done with it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Is this being too conservative? I would love to just use the Declaration of Completion but if I have no idea where this beneficiary is located, I fear the ramifications if he decides to come out of the woodwork years from now. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Brent</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brent
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