[WSBARP] Mobile Home TOD?

[Joshua McKarcher]

Even adding a joint tenant on the mobile home’s title document now requires title work once now and once after death. And it sounds difficult apparently. So instead retitle it now to the simplest revocable living trust you can draft. Could even make both of them co-trustees now if you want to. Then retitle now, and they are effectively both “on title” now for authority but not yet for ownership — thus no loss of step-up in basis at death.

After mom’s death daughter can retitle it to herself individually or (maybe) leave it in trust (depending on what you draft).

The trust could even make the successor trustee to be the PR of the mother’s probate estate; heck, the contingent beneficiary could be the mother’s estate. That saves lots of thinking now if mom doesn’t want to do that and understands it ends up the same place it would now if daughter dies with her in car accident or something.

No more than two titling events required. Pretty easy, really, and I find vehicle titles retitle easily in Washington.

Hope that helps! :) All the best, Josh

Joshua D. McKarcher
McKarcher Law PLLC
537 6th Street
Clarkston, WA 99403
(509) 758-3345
(509) 758-3314 (fax)
josh at mckarcherlaw.com
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Hello, esteemed list.  I'm following up on my previous email - apparently this is stumping everyone else just like me? We called the county recorder's office and they didn't know what to suggest either. Worst case, it's reflected in the Will only, but I was sure hoping to make it a bit easier on them.

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 1:50 PM Kira Rubel <kira at theharborlawgroup.com<mailto:kira at theharborlawgroup.com>> wrote:
Happy Monday! I have a client who has a stationary mobile home (more of a manufactured home) and she'd like to do a transfer on death deed to her daughter. Unfortunately, there's no deed as it's technically a mobile home! One practitioner suggested a joint tenancy, but the client does not want to do that.  Any other thoughts on this?

Thank you!

Kira M. Rubel

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