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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Isn’t a different “grantee” an inconsistency? An online dictionary defines inconsistency as “not staying the same throughout. ‘the quality of the material was often inconsistent’"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ryan Castle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 29, 2024 1:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Question about two TODDs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a potential client who was a grantee of a now deceased person's real estate under a transfer on death deed, recorded in the proper county. Then, a few years later that same grantor, record<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ed
another TODD listing a different grantee. The grantor then died a year later. No evidence of fishyness. Does the later TODD automatically revoke the first TODD? RCW 64.80.080(1)(a)(i) states:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">an instrument is effective to revoke a recorded transfer on death deed, or any part of it, only if the instrument:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(i) A transfer on death deed that revokes the deed or part of the deed expressly or by inconsistency;</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The second TODD does not expressly revoke the first TODD. But does this second TODD </span><span style="color:black">qualify as an</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
"inconsistency" that will revoke the first TODD?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks in advance for any thoughts!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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