[WSBARP] sol on intestate

[Eric Nelsen]

I hadn’t though of it that way but I bet that’s the practical statute of limitations on discovery of a Will, based on the intestate heirs’ possession and control of the decedent’s property. Three years for personal property under RCW 4.16.080(2)<https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.16.080>, and seven or ten years for real property under RCW 7.28.070 and .080<https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.28&full=true#7.28.070> or RCW 4.16.020(1)<https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.16.020>. If those limits pass, the intestate heir would have a possession-based and time-based defense to any claim of ownership by the beneficiaries under the will, and maybe even against a duly appointed Executor under a late-discovered Will.

I don’t know of any case law on that issue though. Just speculating.

Sincerely,

Eric

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Don’t see one. I suppose at some point the doctrine of impossibility might come into play, or adverse possession, or any number of other common law doctrines to protect long-held expectations and reliance.

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Thanks, no time limit?

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RCW 11.28.150<http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.28.150>
Revocation of letters by discovery of will.
If after letters of administration are granted a will of the deceased be found and probate thereof be granted, the letters shall be revoked and letters testamentary or of administration with the will annexed, shall be granted.


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Subject: [WSBARP] sol on intestate

Is there a time limit for contesting an intestate probate?  Assume a lost will, children commence probate as intestate, PR appointed and work partly done,  or completed, then a child finds what appears to be a valid will; what then?

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