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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.05A.040"><span style="color:#7DAB8A">11.05A.040</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Minimum survival requirement</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Co-owners.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Except as provided in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.05A.060"><b><span style="color:#7DAB8A">11.05A.060</span></b></a>,
if (1) it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of two co-owners with right of survivorship survived the other co-owner by one hundred twenty hours, one-half of the property passes as if one had survived by one hundred twenty hours and
one-half as if the other had survived by one hundred twenty hours, and (2) there are more than two co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by one hundred twenty hours, the property
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Doran<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 30, 2019 2:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Joint Tenants in Real Estate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">An unmarried couple wants to have their names on the Real estate deed as Joint Tenants so that if one dies the other one gets the property. This is all fine.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">However, the client asked an interesting question. If both joint owners get wiped out, killed, at the same time like in an auto accident, what happens to the jointly owned property? Is it a fight over who
actually dies first? Minutes count???</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">I would think that if both joint owners die at the same time then the joint ownership will pass to each of their heirs. The heirs then become joint owners. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">A simple Will expressing what they want to happen in such an instance is probably a good idea.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Jim Doran</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">James R. Doran<o:p></o:p></p>
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