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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>Dear Members:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'> Clients have been married forever. All assets (real estate in various states) were acquired during their marriage. No separate property issues. The couple followed their children here from Virginia 12 years ago. Estate plan drawn by deceased Virginia counsel in 1999 includes separate Living Trusts for each spouse with no apparent rhyme or reason as to which trust acquires a certain property - 75% of total in wife’s trust. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'> Can anyone offer rational for having separate trust for the wife and husband? Cumbersome to amend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'> Thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>Thomas S. Hayward<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>Attorney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>1000 2nd Avenue, Suite 1750<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>Seattle, WA 98104<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>206 682 4501 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:blue'>206 595 1621 (cell)</span></b><i><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>