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Would CR60(b) be applicable in this scenario? CR 60(b)(3) would appear to apply to a newly discovered Will, but it only gives a party one year to file. If there was fraudulent contact by the PR in concealing a Will, then maybe CR60(b)(4) would give more time? </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I hadn’t though of it that way but I bet that’s the practical statute of limitations on discovery of a Will, based on the intestate heirs’ possession and control of the decedent’s property. Three years for personal property under
<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.16.080">RCW 4.16.080(2)</a>, and seven or ten years for real property under
<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.28&full=true#7.28.070">RCW 7.28.070 and .080</a> or
<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.16.020">RCW 4.16.020(1)</a>. If those limits pass, the intestate heir would have a possession-based and time-based defense to any claim of ownership by the beneficiaries under the will, and maybe even
against a duly appointed Executor under a late-discovered Will.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I don’t know of any case law on that issue though. Just speculating.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="">Eric C. Nelsen</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Don’t see one. I suppose at some point the doctrine of impossibility might come into play, or adverse possession, or any number of other common law doctrines to protect long-held expectations and reliance.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Thanks, no time limit?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Is there a time limit for contesting an intestate probate? Assume a lost will, children commence probate as intestate, PR appointed and work partly done, or completed, then a child finds what appears to be a valid will; what then?</p>
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