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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Ronald,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">I already offered to the local title company to tender the payoff funds (and pay a fee if necessary) and have them forward it to DSHS (kind of like a sub-escrow). Offer was refused.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">I was hoping for a shortcut from some really smart attorney on the listserv so that I didn’t have to work the ladder at DSHS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">You’d think with the continual budget crises in Olympia that they’d be more accommodating. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><img width="86" height="130" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D024F2.3DF58310" align="left" hspace="12"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Robert R. Rowley</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> | Attorney at Law</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">505 W. Riverside Ave, Suite 500</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Spokane, WA 99201</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Telephone: (509) 252-5074</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Mobile: (509) 994-1143</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Facsimile: (509) 928-3084</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Email: </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">rob@rowleylegal.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d">Web Site: </span><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.rowleylegal.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.rowleylegal.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ronald L. Coleman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 31, 2014 11:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'WSBA Real Property Listserv'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] DSHS Won't Provide A Payoff Of Lien In A Closing To An Attorney But Will Do So With A Title Company- Thoughts?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Rob,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Might you use the title company to pay it off as part of clearing the title, and pay a fee should they require it? If that does not work, time to go higher up the ladder at DSHS and maybe start with an atty at your local office for DSHS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Ron Coleman</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Ronald L. Coleman<br></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Direct 253-238-5129 - <a href="mailto:rcoleman@dpearson.com">rcoleman@dpearson.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5a647f">Davies Pearson, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#5a647f">P.C.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#5a647f">ATTORNEYS AT LAW</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">920 Fawcett Avenue / PO Box 1657, Tacoma, WA 98401<br>253-620-1500 | Fax 253-238-5158 | </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.dpearson.com"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.dpearson.com</span></a></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Rowley<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA RPPT<br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] DSHS Won't Provide A Payoff Of Lien In A Closing To An Attorney But Will Do So With A Title Company- Thoughts?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Friends,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Any thoughts on how to get an accurate payoff from DSHS on an old child support lien. Standard residential real estate closing. Originally the preliminary title commitment and file was opened up with a Spokane title company as closer. The parties then substituted me, as closer, at the last minute for various reasons. Seller has a very old child support lien for less than $1000 reflected on the preliminary title commitment. I kept asking DSHS for an accurate payoff statement and no response. Because we had no time (foreclosure sale the next day) I went ahead and calculated an astronomical amount of interest as a withholding to ensure it gets paid off which I’m currently holding in my trust account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In my email correspondence with DSHS I've come to discover that only title companies have the authority to get payoff statements from DSHS in the absence of a DSHS release form executed by the judgment debtor. DSHS provided the accurate payoff to the Spokane title company who issued the preliminary title commitment (and has been handsomely paid for it), but local title company <u>refuses </u>to release the DSHS payoff amount in the absence of a release from the seller/judgment debtor. I’ve taken the issue up as far as I can with the title company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Assume the seller/judgment debtor is nowhere to be found to execute the release form.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Any thoughts?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><img width="86" height="130" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D024F2.3DEB9800" align="left" hspace="12"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Robert R. Rowley</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> | Attorney at Law</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">505 W. Riverside Ave, Suite 500</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spokane, WA 99201</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Telephone: (509) 252-5074</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mobile: (509) 994-1143</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Facsimile: (509) 928-3084</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Email: </span><a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">rob@rowleylegal.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Web Site: </span><a href="http://www.rowleylegal.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.rowleylegal.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Practice concentrated on business, real estate and general legal matters in Washington and Idaho.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rowleylegal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image009.gif@01D024F2.3DEB9800"></span></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-rowley/11/172/b20"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image010.gif@01D024F2.3DEB9800"></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/ROBERTRROWLEY"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image011.gif@01D024F2.3DEB9800"></span></a><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/robert-r-rowley-spokane"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="43" height="21" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D024F2.3DEB9800"></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">NOTICE: The contents of this message and any attachments may be protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine or other applicable protections. 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