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<div>I am having a bit of confusion about the number of days to add to the claim period when a new PR is appointed. The vacancy and succession appointment occurred in the same order entered August 4. The first publication date for the Notice will be August
8 -- 4 days. The original claim period expired August 4, so the 4 day add-on means it would be extended to August 8. If that is the case why are we publishing twice (2 successive weeks)? Does anyone disagree that claim period is extended by 4 days according
to the statute?</div>
<div>If anyone has had experience with this, I would love to chat. My deadline for changing the publication notice (if it needs to be changed) is tomorrow at noon.</div>
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<div>Here is the statute:</div>
<div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt;"><font face="Open Sans" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"><b>RCW </b><a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.40.150"><font color="#2B674D"><b><u>11.40.150</u></b></font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt;"><font face="Open Sans" size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;"><b>Notice to creditors when personal representative resigns, dies, or is removed</b><font face="Times New Roman"><b>—</b></font><b>Limit tolled
by vacancy.</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;"><font face="Open Sans">(1) If a personal representative has given notice under RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.40.020"><font color="#2B674D"><b><u>11.40.020</u></b></font></a> and then resigns, dies,
or is removed, the successor personal representative shall:</font></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;"><font face="Open Sans">(a) <span style="background-color:yellow;">Publish notice of the vacancy and succession for two successive weeks in the legal newspaper</span> in which notice was published under RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.40.020"><font color="#2B674D"><b><u>11.40.020</u></b></font></a> if
the vacancy occurred within twenty-four months after the decedent's date of death; and</font></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;"><font face="Open Sans">(b) Provide actual notice of the vacancy and succession to a creditor if: (i) The creditor filed a claim and the claim had not been accepted or rejected by the prior personal representative; or (ii) the
creditor's claim was rejected and the vacancy occurred within thirty days after rejection of the claim.</font></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;"><font face="Open Sans">(2) <span style="background-color:yellow;">The time between the resignation, death, or removal and first publication of the vacancy and succession</span> or, in the case of actual notice, the mailing of
the notice of vacancy and succession <span style="background-color:yellow;">must be added to the time within which a claim must be presented</span> or a suit on a rejected claim must be filed. This section does not extend the twenty-four month self-executing
bar under RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=11.40.051"><font color="#2B674D"><b><u>11.40.051</u></b></font></a>.</font></div>
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