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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dwight, as another poster has observed, the WACs seem to require a Real Estate Excise Tax Affidavit for this type of transaction and, I imagine, this is not followed in a great many divorces.
What has been your experience with the failure to file the REET? Would a county really allow a divorcee to file a REET 30 years after the fact AND who is going to sign for the party giving up the property?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bickel, Dwight<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 17, 2017 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] complication in transferring RP to Trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Superior Court judgments and decrees are the same as auditor’s records to constitute public notice of matters related to the land if within that county.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The particular Divorce Decree was forwarded to me. It was plain and simple. “The following property is the sole and separate property of the [wife]” and provided the legal description. It was
in the same county. Therefore, no deed is required for that vesting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The problem with most divorce decrees is that they fail to state a conclusive vesting. For example, many Decrees incorporate a settlement agreement that is sealed, or state executory duties,
such as “Petitioner shall deliver a quitclaim to vest title…” Or the decree simply uses a street address. [WA courts have been notoriously strict requiring real estate agreements to have full legal descriptions, but there are a few Judges that do not require
the same standards when it is within their own decision.] A Decree that refers to the legal description that is in a pleading that is not sealed will be accepted by title companies.
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