[WSBARP] bad legal description in deed to decedent

[Chandra Lewnau]

I represent a personal representative. In drafting a PR deed to a
beneficiary, I noticed a shocking number of errors in the legal description
to the Decedent (from her as successor trustee of a family living trust to
her as an individual). It looked like the law firm that prepared it had
used OCR and didn't proofread.  It stated the SW 0/0 in two places instead
of SW 1/4 and some of the degrees, minutes, seconds notations were clearly
wrong. I reviewed the previous deed in the chain of title (from the
decedent and her now deceased husband to the family living trust) and was
able to identify and fix the errors.  I had my client sign a deed with
the corrected legal description.The beneficiary has his own attorney and I
have informed him of the situation. If my client had been a successor
trustee on the trust I would have just done a correction deed, but my
client is unaware of the terms of the living trust or who might have been a
successor trustee. The parcel is located in Seattle and the street address
and tax assessor id on the bad deed were correct. I'm not sure what else,
if anything, my client needs to do as PR to clear this up and convey good
 title.




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*Chandra M. Lewnau*  *|*  Attorney

WALL GROUP LAW

51 W. Dayton St., Suite 305  *|*  Edmonds, WA 98020

*Tel* 425.670.1560  *|*  *Fax* 425.361.1512  *|* http://www.wallgrouplaw.com


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