<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I had this happen back in March - and let's start calling out the title companies. Mine was First American. The probate was in King County. They claimed: "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We are unable to insure through a Transfer on Death Deed that does not vest in all heirs within two years of the death of the Decedent. The pertinent statute is pasted below. The concern is that the court could award property of the Decedent to their heirs within the timeframe outlined."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">The tacked in RCW 11.54.030, Award to Surviving Spouse, Domestic Partner or Children. Nothing in that RCW says "24 months". Nothing in it applied to my testator. IT WAS SIGNED BY AN ATTORNEY<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I advised the client to try another title company. He did. They insured title and we wrapped up the probate about 3 weeks ago.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Lynn Clare</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Clare Law Firm</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 3:17 PM Mark Anderson <<a href="mailto:marka@mbaesq.com" target="_blank">marka@mbaesq.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Dear All:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Mother owned real property. Mother executed and recorded a transfer upon death deed to Daughter in 2021. Mother died in 2022. A death certificate for Mother was recorded thereafter. Daughter wants to sell
the property.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">A title company asserts that, pursuant to RCW 64.80, creditors and parties with a possible interest in the property have one year after the Grantor’s death to contest the transfer upon death deed and are referring
to this as a “redemption period.” In order for Daughter to sell prior to the running of this one-year period, the title company is requiring a fully executed and recorded Lack of Probate Affidavit and Deed from Mother’s heirs. The title company also went
on to (inexplicably) tell Daughter that, “The grantees will be the recognized Heirs of the estate.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">I acknowledge that RCW 64.80.100(2) says that a beneficiary of a transfer on death deed “takes the property subject to all conveyances, encumbrances, assignments, contracts, mortgages, liens, and other interests
to which the property is subject at the transferor’s death, including liens recorded within twenty-four months after the transferor’s death…." Or, in my view, RCW 64.80 does not expressly grant anyone the right to contest the transfer upon death deed itself.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">So why would the title company interpret RCW 64.80 in the way that it did, both as to timing and substance?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b>Mark B. Anderson<br>
</b>ANDERSON LAW FIRM PLLC<br>
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