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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">That does sound like an option. However, you do want to make the title insurance company happy so consider running it by their attorney to make sure it would satisfy them.
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<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""> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2016 2:56 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Clearing up title - missing fulfillment deed - estate of grantor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I have a client who either never received a fulfillment deed, or more likely received it and never recorded it many years ago. Exhaustive search proved fruitless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The grantors are now both dead. The sale was on a contract that was paid in full before the grantors died.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">It turns out that grantors’ son is a friend of the grantee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Instead of doing a quiet title action, I thought we might just open the probate back up and have son, who was PR sign a new fulfillment deed. Problem is that title passed from
grantor W to grantor H under a community property agreement and as a result son was not PR for his mom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">IF we find the CPA, and it probably was recorded, can I simply recite in deed that 2nd spouse to die inherited all from 1st spouse under a CPA and that the PR of the second to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Joshua F. Grant, PS<br>
Attorney at Law<br>
P. O. Box 619<br>
Wilbur, WA 99185<br>
tel 509 647 5578<br>
fax 509 647 2734<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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