Title 11 - Probate and trust law
- 11.02 - General provisions.
- 11.02.001 - Section headings in Title 11 RCW not part of law.
- 11.02.005 - Definitions and use of terms.
- 11.02.070 - Community property -- Disposition -- Probate administration of.
- 11.02.080 - Application and construction of act as to wills, proceedings, guardians, accrued rights, and pre-executed instruments -- Severability -- Effective date -- 1974 ex.s. c 117.
- 11.02.091 - Written instrument -- Limit on characterization as testamentary.
- 11.02.100 - Transfer of shares of record -- Dividends.
- 11.02.110 - Transfer of shares or securities -- Presumption of joint tenancy.
- 11.02.120 - Transfer of shares -- Liability.
- 11.02.130 - Safe deposit repository -- Lease provision ineffective to create joint tenancy or transfer at one lessee's death.
- 11.02.900 - Short title -- Washington trust act of 1984.
- 11.02.901 - Application -- 1985 c 30 -- Application of 1984 c 149 as amended and reenacted in 1985.
- 11.02.902 - Purpose -- 1985 c 30.
- 11.02.903 - Severability -- 1985 c 30.
- 11.04 - Descent and distribution.
- 11.04.015 - Descent and distribution of real and personal estate.
- 11.04.035 - Kindred of the half blood.
- 11.04.041 - Advancements.
- 11.04.060 - Tenancy in dower and by curtesy abolished.
- 11.04.071 - Survivorship as incident of tenancy by the entireties abolished.
- 11.04.081 - Inheritance by and from any child not dependent upon marriage of parents.
- 11.04.085 - Inheritance by adopted child.
- 11.04.095 - Inheritance from stepparent avoids escheat.
- 11.04.230 - United States savings bond -- Effect of death of co-owner.
- 11.04.240 - United States savings bond -- Effect of beneficiary's survival of registered owner.
- 11.04.250 - When real estate vests -- Rights of heirs.
- 11.04.290 - Vesting of title.
- 11.05A - Uniform simultaneous death act.
- 11.05A.010 - Definitions.
- 11.05A.020 - Minimum survival requirement -- Probate code.
- 11.05A.030 - Minimum survival requirement -- Governing instruments.
- 11.05A.040 - Minimum survival requirement -- Co-owners.
- 11.05A.050 - Evidence of death or status.
- 11.05A.060 - Exceptions.
- 11.05A.070 - Liability.
- 11.05A.900 - Application -- Construction.
- 11.05A.901 - Short title.
- 11.05A.902 - Captions not law.
- 11.05A.903 - Severability -- 2007 c 475.
- 11.05A.904 - Application.
- 11.07 - Nonprobate assets on dissolution or invalidation of marriage.
- 11.08 - Escheats.
- 11.08.101 - Property of deceased inmates of state institutions -- Disposition after two years.
- 11.08.111 - Property of deceased inmates of state institutions -- Disposition within two years.
- 11.08.120 - Property of deceased inmates of state institutions -- Sale -- Disposition of proceeds.
- 11.08.140 - Escheat for want of heirs.
- 11.08.150 - Title to property vests in state at death of owner.
- 11.08.160 - Department of revenue -- Jurisdiction -- Duties.
- 11.08.170 - Probate of escheat property -- Notice to department of revenue.
- 11.08.180 - Department of revenue to be furnished copies of documents and pleadings.
- 11.08.185 - Escheat property -- Records of department of revenue -- Public record information.
- 11.08.200 - Liability for use of escheated property.
- 11.08.205 - Lease, sublease, or rental of escheated real property -- Authorized -- Expenses -- Distribution of proceeds.
- 11.08.210 - Allowance of claims, expenses, partial fees -- Sale of property -- Decree of distribution.
- 11.08.220 - Certified copies of decree -- Department of natural resources duties.
- 11.08.230 - Appearance and claim of heirs -- Notices to department of revenue.
- 11.08.240 - Limitation on filing claim.
- 11.08.250 - Order of court on establishment of claim -- Park lands -- Appraisal.
- 11.08.260 - Payment of escheated funds to claimant.
- 11.08.270 - Conveyance of escheated property to claimant.
- 11.08.280 - Limitation when claimant is minor or incompetent not under guardianship.
- 11.08.290 - Deposit of cash received by personal representative of escheat estate.
- 11.08.300 - Transfer of property to department of revenue.
- 11.10 - Abatement of assets.
- 11.100 - Investment of trust funds.
- 11.100.010 - Provisions of chapter to control -- Alteration by controlling instrument.
- 11.100.015 - Guardians, guardianships and funds are subject to chapter.
- 11.100.020 - Management of trust assets by fiduciary.
- 11.100.023 - Authority of fiduciary to invest in certain enterprises.
- 11.100.025 - Spousal or domestic partnership deduction interests.
- 11.100.030 - Investment in savings accounts -- Requirements.
- 11.100.035 - Investments in securities of certain investment trusts.
- 11.100.037 - Investment or distribution of funds held in fiduciary capacity -- Deposit in other departments authorized -- Collateral security required, exception.
- 11.100.040 - Court may permit deviation from terms of trust instrument.
- 11.100.045 - Fiduciary -- Duty to beneficiaries.
- 11.100.047 - Fiduciary -- Duty to diversify.
- 11.100.050 - Scope of chapter.
- 11.100.060 - Fiduciary may hold and retain trust property -- Investments -- Liability.
- 11.100.070 - Meaning of terms in trust instrument.
- 11.100.090 - Dealings with self or affiliate.
- 11.100.120 - Use of trust funds for life insurance.
- 11.100.130 - Person to whom power or authority to direct or control acts of fiduciary or investments of a trust is conferred deemed a fiduciary -- Liability.
- 11.100.140 - Notice and procedure for nonroutine transactions.
- 11.102 - Common trust funds.
- 11.104A - Washington principal and income act of 2002.
- 11.104A.001 - Short title.
- 11.104A.005 - Definitions.
- 11.104A.010 - Fiduciary duties -- General principles.
- 11.104A.020 - Fiduciary's power to adjust.
- 11.104A.030 - Judicial control of discretionary powers.
- 11.104A.040 - Power to convert to unitrust.
- 11.104A.050 - Determination and distribution of net income.
- 11.104A.060 - Distribution to residuary and remainder beneficiaries.
- 11.104A.070 - When right to income begins and ends.
- 11.104A.080 - Apportionment of receipts and disbursements when decedent dies or income interest begins.
- 11.104A.090 - Apportionment when income interest ends.
- 11.104A.100 - Character of receipts.
- 11.104A.110 - Distribution from trust or estate.
- 11.104A.120 - Business and other activities conducted by trustee.
- 11.104A.130 - Principal receipts.
- 11.104A.140 - Rental property.
- 11.104A.150 - Obligation to pay money.
- 11.104A.160 - Insurance policies and similar contracts.
- 11.104A.170 - Insubstantial allocations not required.
- 11.104A.180 - Deferred compensation, annuities, and similar payments.
- 11.104A.190 - Liquidating asset.
- 11.104A.200 - Minerals, water, and other natural resources.
- 11.104A.210 - Timber.
- 11.104A.220 - Property not productive of income.
- 11.104A.230 - Derivatives and options.
- 11.104A.240 - Asset-backed securities.
- 11.104A.250 - Disbursements from income.
- 11.104A.260 - Disbursements from principal.
- 11.104A.270 - Transfers from income to principal for depreciation.
- 11.104A.280 - Transfers from income to reimburse principal.
- 11.104A.290 - Income taxes.
- 11.104A.300 - Adjustments between principal and income because of taxes.
- 11.104A.900 - Uniformity of application and construction.
- 11.104A.901 - Application of chapter 11.96A RCW.
- 11.104A.902 - Severability -- 2002 c 345.
- 11.104A.903 - Captions, article and part headings not law -- 2002 c 345.
- 11.104A.904 - Effective date -- 2002 c 345.
- 11.104A.905 - Application of act to existing trusts and estates.
- 11.104A.906 - Transitional matters.
- 11.104A.907 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.106 - Trustees' accounting act.
- 11.106.010 - Scope of chapter -- Exceptions.
- 11.106.020 - Trustee's annual statement.
- 11.106.030 - Intermediate and final accounts -- Contents -- Filing.
- 11.106.040 - Petition for statement of account.
- 11.106.050 - Account filed -- Return day -- Notice.
- 11.106.060 - Account filed -- Objections -- Appointment of guardians ad litem -- Representatives.
- 11.106.070 - Court to determine accuracy, validity -- Decree.
- 11.106.080 - Effect of decree.
- 11.106.090 - Appeal from decree.
- 11.106.100 - Waiver of accounting by beneficiary.
- 11.106.110 - Modification under chapter 11.97 RCW -- How constituted.
- 11.108 - Miscellaneous provisions for distributions made by a governing instrument.
- 11.108.010 - Definitions.
- 11.108.020 - Marital deduction gift -- Compliance with Internal Revenue Code -- Fiduciary powers.
- 11.108.025 - Election to qualify property for the marital deduction -- Generation-skipping transfer tax allocations.
- 11.108.030 - Pecuniary bequests -- Valuation of assets if distribution other than money.
- 11.108.040 - Construction of certain marital deduction formula bequests.
- 11.108.050 - Marital deduction gift in trust.
- 11.108.060 - Marital deduction gift -- Survivorship requirement -- Limits -- Property to be held in trust.
- 11.108.070 - Presumptions for the interpretation, construction, and administration of governing instrument.
- 11.108.080 - Generation-skipping transfer tax -- Federal law application.
- 11.108.090 - Generation-skipping transfer tax -- Dispute resolution of federal law application.
- 11.108.900 - Application of chapter -- Application of 2006 c 360.
- 11.108.901 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.11 - Testamentary disposition of nonprobate assets act.
- 11.11.003 - Purposes.
- 11.11.005 - Construction.
- 11.11.007 - Intent -- Controversies between beneficiaries and testamentary beneficiaries.
- 11.11.010 - Definitions.
- 11.11.020 - Disposition of nonprobate assets under will.
- 11.11.030 - Waiver of right to dispose of a nonprobate asset under will -- Revocation of waiver.
- 11.11.040 - Right to rely on form of nonprobate asset -- Discharge of financial institution or other third party.
- 11.11.050 - Notice -- Affidavit -- Form -- Limitation on liability for failure to provide notice.
- 11.11.060 - Vesting of rights and powers under chapter.
- 11.11.070 - Ownership rights as between individuals preserved -- Testamentary beneficiary may recover nonprobate asset from beneficiary -- Limitation on action to recover.
- 11.11.080 - Nonprobate assets not property of estate -- Effect of notice on administration -- Effect of preceding death of devisee or legatee.
- 11.11.090 - Transfer of nonprobate asset to testamentary beneficiary.
- 11.11.100 - Authority to withhold transfer -- Notice -- Expenses of obtaining consent, authorization, direction.
- 11.11.110 - Adverse claim bond.
- 11.11.900 - Short title.
- 11.11.901 - Application of chapter.
- 11.11.902 - Part headings and section captions not law -- 1998 c 292.
- 11.11.903 - Effective dates -- 1998 c 292.
- 11.110 - Charitable trusts.
- 11.110.010 - Purpose of chapter.
- 11.110.020 - Definitions.
- 11.110.040 - Information, documents, and reports are public records -- Inspection -- Publication.
- 11.110.051 - Registration of trustee -- Requirements -- Exception -- Application of chapter to nonregistered trustees.
- 11.110.060 - Instrument establishing trust, inventory of assets, registration status, successor trustee information, and amendments to be filed.
- 11.110.070 - Tax or information return or report -- Filing -- Rules -- Forms.
- 11.110.075 - Trust not exclusively for charitable purposes -- Instrument and information not public -- Access.
- 11.110.090 - Uniformity of chapter with laws of other states.
- 11.110.100 - Investigations by attorney general authorized -- Appearance and production of books, papers, documents, etc., may be required.
- 11.110.110 - Order to appear -- Effect -- Enforcement -- Appellate review.
- 11.110.120 - Proceedings to secure compliance and proper trust administration -- Attorney general to be notified of judicial proceedings involving charitable trust -- Powers and duties additional.
- 11.110.125 - Violations -- Refusal to file reports, perform duties, etc.
- 11.110.130 - Violations -- Civil action may be prosecuted.
- 11.110.140 - Penalty.
- 11.110.200 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Application of RCW through 11.110.260 to certain trusts defined in federal code.
- 11.110.210 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Trust instruments deemed to contain prohibiting provisions.
- 11.110.220 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Trust instruments deemed to contain certain provisions for distribution.
- 11.110.230 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Rights, powers, of courts, attorney general, not impaired.
- 11.110.250 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Application to trust created after June 10, 1971, or amendment to existing trust.
- 11.110.260 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Severability -- RCW 11.110.200 through .
- 11.110.270 - Tax Reform Act of 1969, state implementation -- Not for profit corporations.
- 11.110.900 - Severability -- 1967 ex.s. c 53.
- 11.114 - Uniform transfers to minors act.
- 11.114.010 - Definitions.
- 11.114.020 - Scope and jurisdiction.
- 11.114.030 - Nomination of custodian -- Designation of custodian by representative or specified person.
- 11.114.040 - Transfer by gift or exercise of power of appointment.
- 11.114.050 - Transfer authorized by will or trust.
- 11.114.060 - Other transfer by fiduciary.
- 11.114.070 - Transfer by obligor.
- 11.114.080 - Receipt for custodial property.
- 11.114.090 - Form and manner of creating custodial property and effecting transfer.
- 11.114.100 - Single custodianship.
- 11.114.110 - Validity and effect of transfer.
- 11.114.120 - Care of custodial property.
- 11.114.130 - Powers of custodian.
- 11.114.140 - Use of custodial property.
- 11.114.150 - Custodian's expenses, compensation, and bond.
- 11.114.160 - Exemption of third person from liability.
- 11.114.170 - Liability to third persons.
- 11.114.180 - Renunciation, resignation, death, or removal of custodian -- Designation of successor custodian.
- 11.114.190 - Accounting by and determination of liability of custodian.
- 11.114.200 - Termination of custodianship -- Extension.
- 11.114.210 - Applicability.
- 11.114.220 - Effect on existing custodianships.
- 11.114.230 - Uniformity of application and construction.
- 11.114.900 - Short title.
- 11.114.901 - Captions not law.
- 11.114.902 - Savings -- 1991 c 193.
- 11.114.903 - Effective date -- 1991 c 193.
- 11.114.904 - Severability -- 1991 c 193.
- 11.118 - Trusts -- Animals.
- 11.118.005 - Purpose--Intent.
- 11.118.010 - Definition.
- 11.118.020 - Validity of animal trust.
- 11.118.030 - Use of trust principal or income.
- 11.118.040 - Termination of trust.
- 11.118.050 - Enforcement of trust provisions.
- 11.118.060 - Accounting requirements.
- 11.118.070 - Appointment and removal of trustee.
- 11.118.080 - Construction of trust language.
- 11.118.090 - Application of rule against perpetuities--Effective date of trust.
- 11.118.100 - Trustee powers.
- 11.118.110 - Application of chapter.
- 11.12 - Wills.
- 11.12.010 - Who may make a will.
- 11.12.020 - Requisites of wills -- Foreign wills.
- 11.12.025 - Nuncupative wills.
- 11.12.030 - Signature of testator at his or her direction -- Signature by mark.
- 11.12.040 - Revocation of will -- How effected -- Effect on codicils.
- 11.12.051 - Dissolution, invalidation, or termination of marriage or domestic partnership.
- 11.12.060 - Agreement to convey does not revoke.
- 11.12.070 - Devise or bequeathal of property subject to encumbrance.
- 11.12.080 - Revocation of later will or codicil -- Effect -- Evidence.
- 11.12.091 - Omitted child.
- 11.12.095 - Omitted spouse or omitted domestic partner.
- 11.12.110 - Death of grandparent's issue before grantor.
- 11.12.120 - Lapsed gift -- Procedure and proof.
- 11.12.160 - Interested witness -- Effect on will.
- 11.12.170 - Devise of land, what passes.
- 11.12.180 - Rule in Shelley's Case abolished--Future distribution or interest to heirs.
- 11.12.185 - Doctrine of Worthier Title abolished -- Exception.
- 11.12.190 - Will to operate on after-acquired property.
- 11.12.220 - No interest on devise unless will so provides.
- 11.12.230 - Intent of testator controlling.
- 11.12.250 - Gift to trust.
- 11.12.255 - Incorporation by reference.
- 11.12.260 - Separate writing may direct disposition of tangible personal property -- Requirements.
- 11.12.265 - Filing of original will with court before death of testator.
- 11.18 - Liability of beneficiary of nonprobate asset.
- 11.20 - Custody, proof, and probate of wills.
- 11.20.010 - Duty of custodian of will -- Liability.
- 11.20.020 - Application for probate -- Hearing -- Order -- Proof -- Record of testimony -- Affidavits of attesting witnesses.
- 11.20.030 - Commission to take testimony of witness.
- 11.20.040 - Proof where one or more witnesses are unable or incompetent to testify, or absent from state.
- 11.20.050 - Recording of wills.
- 11.20.060 - Record of will as evidence.
- 11.20.070 - Proof of lost or destroyed will.
- 11.20.080 - Restraint of personal representative during pendency of application to prove lost or destroyed will.
- 11.20.090 - Admission to probate of foreign will.
- 11.20.100 - Laws applicable to foreign wills.
- 11.24 - Will contests.
- 11.28 - Letters testamentary and of administration.
- 11.28.010 - Letters to executors -- Refusal to serve -- Disqualification.
- 11.28.020 - Objections to appointment.
- 11.28.030 - Community property -- Who entitled to letters -- Waiver.
- 11.28.040 - Procedure during minority or absence of executor.
- 11.28.050 - Powers of remaining executors on removal of associate.
- 11.28.060 - Administration with will annexed on death of executor.
- 11.28.070 - Authority of administrator with will annexed.
- 11.28.085 - Records and certification of letters -- Record of bonds.
- 11.28.090 - Execution and form of letters testamentary.
- 11.28.100 - Form of letters with will annexed.
- 11.28.110 - Application for letters of administration or adjudication of intestacy and heirship.
- 11.28.120 - Persons entitled to letters.
- 11.28.131 - Hearing on petition -- Appointment -- Issuance of letters -- Notice to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.
- 11.28.140 - Form of letters of administration.
- 11.28.150 - Revocation of letters by discovery of will.
- 11.28.160 - Cancellation of letters of administration.
- 11.28.170 - Oath of personal representative.
- 11.28.185 - Bond or other security of personal representative -- When not required -- Waiver -- Corporate trustee -- Additional bond -- Reduction -- Other security.
- 11.28.190 - Examination of sureties -- Additional security -- Costs.
- 11.28.210 - New or additional bond.
- 11.28.220 - Persons disqualified as sureties.
- 11.28.230 - Bond not void for want of form -- Successive recoveries.
- 11.28.235 - Limitation of action against sureties.
- 11.28.237 - Notice of appointment as personal representative, pendency of probate -- Proof by affidavit.
- 11.28.238 - Notice of appointment as personal representative -- Notice to department of revenue.
- 11.28.240 - Request for special notice of proceedings in probate -- Prohibitions.
- 11.28.250 - Revocation of letters -- Causes.
- 11.28.260 - Revocation of letters -- Proceedings in court or chambers.
- 11.28.270 - Powers of remaining personal representatives if letters to associates revoked or surrendered or upon disqualification.
- 11.28.280 - Successor personal representative.
- 11.28.290 - Accounting on death, resignation, or revocation of letters.
- 11.28.300 - Proceedings against delinquent personal representative.
- 11.28.330 - Notice of adjudication of testacy or intestacy and heirship -- Contents -- Service or mailing.
- 11.28.340 - Order of adjudication of testacy or intestacy and heirship -- Entry -- Time limitation -- Deemed final decree of distribution, when -- Purpose -- Finality of adjudications.
- 11.32 - Special administrators.
- 11.36 - Qualifications of personal representatives.
- 11.40 - Claims against estate.
- 11.40.010 - Claims -- Presentation -- Other notice not affected.
- 11.40.020 - Notice to creditors -- Manner -- Filings -- Publication.
- 11.40.030 - Notice to creditors -- Form.
- 11.40.040 - "Reasonably ascertainable" creditor -- Definition -- Reasonable diligence -- Presumptions -- Petition for order.
- 11.40.051 - Claims against decedent -- Time limits.
- 11.40.060 - Claims involving liability or casualty insurance -- Limitations -- Exceptions to time limits.
- 11.40.070 - Claims -- Form -- Manner of presentation -- Waiver of defects.
- 11.40.080 - Claims -- Duty to allow or reject -- Notice of petition to allow -- Attorneys' fees.
- 11.40.090 - Allowance of claims -- Notice -- Automatic allowance -- Petition for extension -- Ranking of claims -- Barred claims.
- 11.40.100 - Rejection of claim -- Time limits -- Notice -- Compromise of claim.
- 11.40.110 - Action pending at decedent's death -- Personal representative as defendant.
- 11.40.120 - Effect of judgment against personal representative.
- 11.40.130 - Judgment against decedent -- Execution barred upon decedent's death -- Presentation -- Sale of property.
- 11.40.135 - Secured claim -- Creditor's right.
- 11.40.140 - Claim of personal representative -- Presentation and petition -- Filing.
- 11.40.150 - Notice to creditors when personal representative resigns, dies, or is removed -- Limit tolled by vacancy.
- 11.40.160 - Personal representative as successor to notice agent -- Notice not affected -- Presumptions -- Duties.
- 11.40.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.42 - Settlement of creditor claims for estates passing without probate.
- 11.42.010 - Notice agent -- Qualifications.
- 11.42.020 - Notice to creditors -- Manner -- Filings -- Publication.
- 11.42.030 - Notice to creditors -- Form.
- 11.42.040 - "Reasonably ascertainable" creditor -- Definition -- Reasonable diligence -- Presumptions -- Petition for order.
- 11.42.050 - Claims against decedent -- Time limits.
- 11.42.060 - Claims involving liability or casualty insurance -- Limitations -- Exceptions to time limits.
- 11.42.070 - Claims -- Form -- Manner of presentation -- Waiver of defects.
- 11.42.080 - Claims -- Duty to allow or reject -- Notice of petition to allow -- Attorneys' fees.
- 11.42.085 - Property liable for claims -- Payment limits.
- 11.42.090 - Allowance of claims -- Notice -- Payment order.
- 11.42.100 - Rejection of claim -- Time limits -- Notice -- Time limit for suit -- Compromise of claim.
- 11.42.110 - Effect of judgment against notice agent.
- 11.42.120 - Execution barred upon decedent's death -- Presentation -- Sale of property.
- 11.42.125 - Secured claim -- Creditor's right.
- 11.42.130 - Claim of notice agent or beneficiary -- Payment.
- 11.42.140 - Notice to creditors when notice agent resigns, dies, or is removed -- Limit tolled by vacancy.
- 11.42.150 - Appointment of personal representative -- Cessation of notice agent powers and authority -- Notice not affected -- Personal representative's powers -- Petition for reimbursement for al
- 11.42.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.44 - Inventory and appraisement.
- 11.44.015 - Inventory and appraisement -- Filing -- Copy distribution.
- 11.44.025 - Additional inventory and appraisement -- Copy distribution.
- 11.44.035 - Inventory and appraisement may be contradicted or avoided.
- 11.44.050 - Inventory and appraisement -- Failure to return or provide copy -- Revocation of letters.
- 11.44.070 - Persons assisting in appraisement -- Compensation -- Refund.
- 11.44.085 - Claims against personal representative included.
- 11.44.090 - Discharge of debt -- Specific bequest and inclusion in inventory and appraisement.
- 11.48 - Personal representatives -- General provisions -- Actions by and against.
- 11.48.010 - General powers and duties.
- 11.48.020 - Right to possession and management of estate.
- 11.48.025 - Continuation of decedent's business.
- 11.48.030 - Chargeable with whole estate.
- 11.48.040 - Not chargeable on special promise to pay decedent's debts unless in writing.
- 11.48.050 - Allowance of necessary expenses.
- 11.48.060 - May recover for embezzled or alienated property of decedent.
- 11.48.070 - Concealed or embezzled property -- Proceedings for discovery.
- 11.48.080 - Uncollectible debts -- Liability -- Purchase of claims by personal representative.
- 11.48.090 - Actions for recovery of property and on contract.
- 11.48.120 - Action on bond of previous personal representative.
- 11.48.130 - Compromise of claims.
- 11.48.140 - Recovery of decedent's fraudulent conveyances.
- 11.48.150 - Several personal representatives considered as one.
- 11.48.160 - Default judgment not evidence of assets -- Exception.
- 11.48.180 - Liability of executor de son tort.
- 11.48.190 - Executor of executor may not sue for estate of first testator.
- 11.48.200 - Arrest and attachment, when, authorized.
- 11.48.210 - Compensation -- Attorney's fees.
- 11.54 - Family support and postdeath creditor's claim exemptions.
- 11.54.010 - Award to surviving spouse, domestic partner, or children -- Petition.
- 11.54.020 - Amount of basic award.
- 11.54.030 - Conditions to award.
- 11.54.040 - Increase in amount of award -- Factors for consideration.
- 11.54.050 - Decrease in amount of award -- Factors for consideration.
- 11.54.060 - Priority of awarded property -- Effect of purchase or encumbrance on property.
- 11.54.070 - Immunity of award from debts and claims of creditors.
- 11.54.080 - Exemption of additional assets from claims of creditors -- Petition -- Notice -- Court order.
- 11.54.090 - Venue for petition -- Petition and hearing requirements -- Notice of hearing.
- 11.54.100 - Exhaustion of estate -- Closure of estate -- Discharge of personal representative.
- 11.56 - Sales, exchanges, leases, mortgages, and borrowing.
- 11.56.005 - Authority to exchange.
- 11.56.010 - Authority to sell, lease or mortgage.
- 11.56.020 - Sale, lease or mortgage of personal property.
- 11.56.030 - Sale, lease or mortgage of real estate -- Petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- 11.56.040 - Order directing mortgage.
- 11.56.045 - Order directing lease.
- 11.56.050 - Order directing sale.
- 11.56.060 - Public sales -- Notice.
- 11.56.070 - Postponement, adjournment of sale -- Notice.
- 11.56.080 - Private sales of realty -- Notice -- Bids.
- 11.56.090 - Minimum price -- Private sale -- Sale by negotiation -- Reappraisement.
- 11.56.100 - Confirmation of sale -- Approval -- Resale.
- 11.56.110 - Offer of increased bid -- Duty of court.
- 11.56.115 - Effect of confirmation.
- 11.56.120 - Conveyance after confirmation of sale.
- 11.56.180 - Sale of decedent's contract interest in land.
- 11.56.210 - Assignment of decedent's contract.
- 11.56.220 - Redemption of decedent's mortgaged estate.
- 11.56.230 - Sale or mortgage to effect redemption.
- 11.56.240 - Sale of mortgaged property if redemption inexpedient.
- 11.56.250 - Sales directed by will.
- 11.56.265 - Broker's fee and closing expenses -- Sale, mortgage or lease.
- 11.56.280 - Borrowing on general credit of estate -- Petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- 11.60 - Performance of decedent's contracts.
- 11.60.010 - Order for performance on application of personal representative.
- 11.60.020 - Petition, notice, and hearing when personal representative fails to make application.
- 11.60.030 - Hearing.
- 11.60.040 - Conveyance of real property -- Effect.
- 11.60.060 - Procedure on death of person entitled to performance.
- 11.62 - Small estates -- Disposition of property.
- 11.62.005 - Definitions.
- 11.62.010 - Disposition of personal property, debts by affidavit, proof of death -- Contents of affidavit -- Procedure -- Securities.
- 11.62.020 - Effect of affidavit and proof of death -- Discharge and release of transferor -- Refusal to pay or deliver -- Procedure -- False affidavit -- Conflicting affidavits -- Accountability.
- 11.62.030 - Payment to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner of moneys on deposit of deceased credit union member -- Limitation -- Affidavit -- Accounting to personal representative.
- 11.64 - Partnership property.
- 11.64.002 - Inventory -- Appraisement.
- 11.64.008 - Surviving partner may continue in possession.
- 11.64.016 - Security may be required.
- 11.64.022 - Failure to furnish inventory, list liabilities, permit appraisal, etc. -- Show cause -- Contempt of court -- Receiver.
- 11.64.030 - Surviving partner or partners may purchase deceased's interest -- Valuation -- Conditions of sale -- Protection against partnership liabilities.
- 11.64.040 - Surviving partner may operate under agreement with estate -- Termination.
- 11.66 - Social security benefits.
- 11.68 - Settlement of estates without administration.
- 11.68.011 - Settlement without court intervention -- Petition -- Conditions -- Exceptions.
- 11.68.021 - Hearing on petition for nonintervention powers.
- 11.68.041 - Petition for nonintervention powers -- Notice requirements -- Exceptions.
- 11.68.050 - Objections to granting of nonintervention powers -- Restrictions.
- 11.68.060 - Death, resignation, or disablement of personal representative -- Successor to administer nonintervention powers -- Petition.
- 11.68.065 - Report of affairs of estate -- Petition by beneficiary -- Filing -- Notice -- Hearing -- Other accounting and information.
- 11.68.070 - Procedure when personal representative recreant to trust or subject to removal.
- 11.68.080 - Vacation or restriction of nonintervention powers following insolvency -- Notice -- Determinations affecting prior grants of nonintervention powers upon petition -- Endorsement on prior or
- 11.68.090 - Powers of personal representative under nonintervention will -- Scope -- Relief from duties, restrictions, liabilities by will.
- 11.68.095 - Co-personal representatives -- Powers.
- 11.68.100 - Closing of estate -- Alternative decrees -- Notice -- Hearing -- Fees.
- 11.68.110 - Declaration of completion of probate -- Contents -- Notice -- Discharge of personal representative -- Waiver of notice.
- 11.68.112 - Final distribution upon declaration and notice of filing of declaration of completion of probate -- Special powers of personal representative -- Discharge from liability.
- 11.68.114 - Declaration of completion of probate -- Special powers of personal representative to hold reserve and deal with taxing authorities -- Notice of filing of declaration -- Discharge from liab
- 11.68.120 - Nonintervention powers not deemed waived by obtaining order or decree.
- 11.68.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.72 - Distribution before settlement.
- 11.76 - Settlement of estates.
- 11.76.010 - Report of personal representative -- Contents -- Interim reports.
- 11.76.020 - Notice of hearing -- Settlement of report.
- 11.76.030 - Final report and petition for distribution -- Contents.
- 11.76.040 - Time and place of hearing -- Notice.
- 11.76.050 - Hearing on final report -- Decree of distribution.
- 11.76.060 - Continuance to cite in sureties on bond when account incorrect.
- 11.76.070 - Attorney's fees to contestant of erroneous account or report.
- 11.76.080 - Representation of incapacitated person by guardian ad litem or limited guardian -- Exception.
- 11.76.095 - Distribution of estates to minors.
- 11.76.100 - Receipts for expenses from personal representative.
- 11.76.110 - Order of payment of debts.
- 11.76.120 - Limitation on preference to mortgage or judgment.
- 11.76.130 - Expense of monument.
- 11.76.150 - Payment of claims where estate insufficient.
- 11.76.160 - Liability of personal representative.
- 11.76.170 - Action on claim not acted on -- Contribution.
- 11.76.180 - Order maturing claim not due.
- 11.76.190 - Procedure on contingent and disputed claim.
- 11.76.200 - Agent for absentee distributee.
- 11.76.210 - Agent's bond.
- 11.76.220 - Sale of unclaimed estate -- Remittance of proceeds to department of revenue.
- 11.76.230 - Liability of agent.
- 11.76.240 - Claimant to proceeds of sale.
- 11.76.243 - Heirs may institute probate proceedings if no claimant appears.
- 11.76.245 - Procedure when claim made after time limitation.
- 11.76.247 - When court retains jurisdiction after entry of decree of distribution.
- 11.76.250 - Letters after final settlement.
- 11.80 - Estates of absentees.
- 11.80.010 - Petition -- Notice -- Hearing -- Appointment of trustee.
- 11.80.020 - Inventory and appraisement -- Bond of trustee.
- 11.80.030 - Reports of trustee.
- 11.80.040 - Sale of property -- Application of proceeds and income.
- 11.80.050 - Allowance for support of dependents -- Sale of property.
- 11.80.055 - Continuation of absentee's business -- Performance of absentee's contracts.
- 11.80.060 - Removal or resignation of trustee -- Final account.
- 11.80.070 - Period of trusteeship.
- 11.80.080 - Provisional distribution -- Notice of hearing -- Will.
- 11.80.090 - Hearing -- Distribution -- Bond of distributees.
- 11.80.100 - Final distribution -- Notice of hearing -- Decree.
- 11.80.110 - Escheat for want of presumptive heirs.
- 11.80.120 - Personnel missing in action, interned, or captured construed as "absentee."
- 11.80.130 - Summary procedure without full trustee proceeding -- When permitted -- Application for order -- Form.
- 11.84 - Inheritance rights of slayers or abusers.
- 11.84.010 - Definitions.
- 11.84.020 - Slayer or abuser not to benefit from death.
- 11.84.025 - Disposition of retirement system proceeds payable to slayer or abuser.
- 11.84.030 - Slayer or abuser deemed to predecease decedent.
- 11.84.040 - Distribution of decedent's property.
- 11.84.050 - Distribution of property held jointly with slayer or abuser.
- 11.84.060 - Reversion and vested remainder.
- 11.84.070 - Property subject to divestment, etc.
- 11.84.080 - Contingent remainders and future interests.
- 11.84.090 - Property appointed -- Powers of revocation or appointment.
- 11.84.100 - Insurance proceeds.
- 11.84.110 - Payment by insurance company, bank, etc. -- No additional liability.
- 11.84.120 - Rights of persons without notice dealing with slayer or abuser.
- 11.84.130 - Record of conviction as evidence against claimant of property.
- 11.84.140 - Slayer determination -- Conviction -- Preponderance of evidence.
- 11.84.150 - Abuser determination -- Conviction -- Clear, cogent, and convincing evidence.
- 11.84.160 - Abuser determination -- Evidence factors.
- 11.84.170 - Abuser -- When entitled to property interest.
- 11.84.180 - Application -- Relation to other laws.
- 11.84.900 - Chapter to be construed broadly.
- 11.86 - Disclaimer of interests.
- 11.86.011 - Definitions.
- 11.86.021 - Disclaimer of interest authorized.
- 11.86.031 - Contents of disclaimer -- Time and filing requirements -- Fee.
- 11.86.041 - Disposition of disclaimed interest.
- 11.86.051 - When disclaimer barred -- Exception.
- 11.86.061 - Effect of spendthrift or similar restriction.
- 11.86.071 - Liability for distribution -- Effect of disclaimer.
- 11.86.080 - Rights under other statutes or rules not abridged.
- 11.86.090 - Interests existing on June 7, 1973.
- 11.88 - Guardianship -- Appointment, qualification, removal of guardians.
- 11.88.005 - Legislative intent.
- 11.88.008 - "Professional guardian" defined.
- 11.88.010 - Authority to appoint guardians -- Definitions -- Venue -- Nomination by principal.
- 11.88.020 - Qualifications.
- 11.88.030 - Petition -- Contents -- Hearing.
- 11.88.040 - Notice and hearing, when required -- Service -- Procedure.
- 11.88.045 - Legal counsel and jury trial -- Proof -- Medical report -- Examinations -- Waiver.
- 11.88.080 - Guardians nominated by will or durable power of attorney.
- 11.88.090 - Guardian ad litem -- Mediation -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Notice of and statement by guardian ad litem -- Hearing and notice -- Attorneys' fees and costs -- Registry -- Duties
- 11.88.093 - Ex parte communications -- Removal.
- 11.88.095 - Disposition of guardianship petition.
- 11.88.097 - Guardian ad litem -- Fees.
- 11.88.100 - Oath and bond of guardian or limited guardian.
- 11.88.105 - Reduction in amount of bond.
- 11.88.107 - When bond not required.
- 11.88.110 - Law on executors' and administrators' bonds applicable.
- 11.88.115 - Notice to department of revenue.
- 11.88.120 - Modification or termination of guardianship -- Procedure.
- 11.88.125 - Standby limited guardian or limited guardian.
- 11.88.130 - Transfer of jurisdiction and venue.
- 11.88.140 - Termination of guardianship or limited guardianship.
- 11.88.150 - Administration of deceased incapacitated person's estate.
- 11.88.160 - Guardianships involving veterans.
- 11.88.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.90 - Uniform adult guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act.
- 11.90.010 - Short title.
- 11.90.020 - Definitions.
- 11.90.030 - Foreign country treatment.
- 11.90.040 - Communications with out-of-state courts.
- 11.90.050 - Requests between in-state and out-of-state courts.
- 11.90.060 - Testimony and documentary evidence from another state.
- 11.90.200 - Definitions.
- 11.90.210 - Exclusive jurisdictional basis.
- 11.90.220 - Appointing a guardian or issuing a protective order.
- 11.90.230 - Special jurisdiction.
- 11.90.240 - Exclusive jurisdiction for court appointing a guardian or issuing a protective order.
- 11.90.250 - In-state court declining jurisdiction.
- 11.90.260 - Jurisdiction required by unjustifiable conduct.
- 11.90.270 - Notice of petition requirements when not respondent's home state on filing date.
- 11.90.280 - Rules when guardian appointment or protective order petition is filed in Washington and another state.
- 11.90.400 - Procedure for transfer of guardianship to an out-of-state court.
- 11.90.410 - Procedures for transfer of guardianship or conservatorship to Washington.
- 11.90.420 - Registering out-of-state guardianship.
- 11.90.430 - Registering an out-of-state protective order.
- 11.90.440 - Enforcement of guardianship or protective order from another state.
- 11.90.450 - Uniformity.
- 11.90.460 - Application of the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.
- 11.90.470 - Application.
- 11.92 - Guardianship -- Powers and duties of guardian or limited guardian.
- 11.92.010 - Guardians or limited guardians under court control -- Legal age.
- 11.92.035 - Claims.
- 11.92.040 - Duties of guardian or limited guardian in general.
- 11.92.043 - Additional duties.
- 11.92.050 - Intermediate accounts -- Hearing -- Order.
- 11.92.053 - Settlement of estate upon termination.
- 11.92.056 - Citation of surety on bond.
- 11.92.060 - Guardian to represent incapacitated person -- Compromise of claims -- Service of process.
- 11.92.090 - Sale, exchange, lease, or mortgage of property.
- 11.92.096 - Guardian access to certain held assets.
- 11.92.100 - Petition -- Contents.
- 11.92.110 - Sale of real estate.
- 11.92.115 - Return and confirmation of sale.
- 11.92.120 - Confirmation conclusive.
- 11.92.125 - Broker's fee and closing expenses -- Sale, exchange, mortgage, or lease of real estate.
- 11.92.130 - Performance of contracts.
- 11.92.140 - Court authorization for actions regarding guardianship funds.
- 11.92.150 - Request for special notice of proceedings.
- 11.92.160 - Citation for failure to file account or report.
- 11.92.170 - Removal of property of nonresident incapacitated person.
- 11.92.180 - Compensation and expenses of guardian or limited guardian -- Attorney's fees -- Department of social and health services clients paying part of costs -- Rules.
- 11.92.185 - Concealed or embezzled property.
- 11.92.190 - Detention of person in residential placement facility against will prohibited -- Effect of court order -- Service of notice of residential placement.
- 11.94 - Power of attorney.
- 11.94.010 - Designation -- Authority -- Effect of acts done -- Appointment of guardian, effect -- Accounting -- Reliance on instrument.
- 11.94.020 - Effect of death, disability, or incompetence of principal -- Acts without knowledge.
- 11.94.030 - Banking transactions.
- 11.94.040 - Liability for reliance on power of attorney document.
- 11.94.043 - Durable power of attorney -- Revocation or termination.
- 11.94.046 - Durable power of attorney -- Validity.
- 11.94.050 - Attorney or agent granted principal's powers -- Powers to be specifically provided for -- Transfer of resources by principal's attorney or agent.
- 11.94.060 - Conveyance or encumbrance of homestead.
- 11.94.070 - Limitations on powers to benefit attorneys-in-fact.
- 11.94.080 - Termination of marriage or state registered domestic partnership.
- 11.94.090 - Court petition.
- 11.94.100 - Persons allowed to file court petition.
- 11.94.110 - Ruling on court petition.
- 11.94.120 - Award of costs on court petition.
- 11.94.130 - Applicability of dispute resolution provisions to court petition.
- 11.94.140 - Notice of hearing on court petition.
- 11.94.150 - Mental health treatment decisions -- Compensation of agent prohibited -- Reimbursement of expenses allowed.
- 11.94.900 - Application of 1984 c 149 §§ 26-31 as of January 1, 1985.
- 11.94.901 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.95 - Powers of appointment.
- 11.95.010 - Releases.
- 11.95.020 - Releases -- Partial releases.
- 11.95.030 - Releases -- Delivery.
- 11.95.040 - Releases -- Effect of RCW 11.95.010 through 11.95.050 on prior releases.
- 11.95.060 - Exercise of powers of appointment.
- 11.95.070 - Application of chapter -- Application of 1984 c 149.
- 11.95.100 - Exercise of power in favor of holder--Limitations.
- 11.95.110 - Exercise of power in favor of holder -- Disregard of provision conferring absolute or similar power -- Power of removal.
- 11.95.120 - Exercise of power in favor of holder -- Income under marital deduction -- Spousal power of appointment.
- 11.95.130 - Exercise of power in favor of holder -- Inference of law.
- 11.95.140 - Exercise of power in favor of holder -- Applicability.
- 11.95.150 - Exercise of power in favor of holder -- Cause of action.
- 11.95.160 - Lapse of a power -- Intent not to exercise a power -- Treatment.
- 11.95.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.96A - Trust and estate dispute resolution.
- 11.96A.010 - Purpose.
- 11.96A.020 - General power of courts--Intent--Plenary power of the court.
- 11.96A.030 - Definitions.
- 11.96A.040 - Original jurisdiction in probate and trust matters -- Powers of court.
- 11.96A.050 - Venue in proceedings involving probate or trust matters.
- 11.96A.060 - Exercise of powers -- Orders, writs, process, etc.
- 11.96A.070 - Statutes of limitation.
- 11.96A.080 - Persons entitled to judicial proceedings for declaration of rights or legal relations.
- 11.96A.090 - Judicial proceedings.
- 11.96A.100 - Procedural rules.
- 11.96A.110 - Notice in judicial proceedings under this title requiring notice.
- 11.96A.115 - Discovery.
- 11.96A.120 - Application of doctrine of virtual representation.
- 11.96A.130 - Special notice.
- 11.96A.140 - Waiver of notice.
- 11.96A.150 - Costs -- Attorneys' fees.
- 11.96A.160 - Appointment of guardian ad litem.
- 11.96A.170 - Trial by jury.
- 11.96A.180 - Execution on judgments.
- 11.96A.190 - Execution upon trust income or vested remainder -- Permitted, when.
- 11.96A.200 - Appellate review.
- 11.96A.210 - Purpose.
- 11.96A.220 - Binding agreement.
- 11.96A.230 - Entry of agreement with court -- Effect.
- 11.96A.240 - Judicial approval of agreement.
- 11.96A.250 - Special representative.
- 11.96A.260 - Findings -- Intent.
- 11.96A.270 - Intent -- Parties can agree otherwise.
- 11.96A.280 - Scope.
- 11.96A.290 - Superior court -- Venue.
- 11.96A.300 - Mediation procedure.
- 11.96A.310 - Arbitration procedure.
- 11.96A.320 - Petition for order compelling compliance.
- 11.96A.900 - Short title.
- 11.96A.901 - Captions not law -- 1999 c 42.
- 11.96A.902 - Effective date -- 1999 c 42.
- 11.97 - Effect of trust instrument.
- 11.98 - Trusts.
- 11.98.009 - Application of chapter.
- 11.98.016 - Exercise of powers by co-trustees.
- 11.98.019 - Relinquishment of powers by trustee.
- 11.98.029 - Resignation of trustee.
- 11.98.039 - Nonjudicial change of trustee -- Judicial appointment or change of trustee -- Liability and duties of successor fiduciary.
- 11.98.041 - Change of trustee -- Discharge of outgoing trustee, when.
- 11.98.045 - Criteria for transfer of trust assets or administration.
- 11.98.051 - Nonjudicial transfer of trust assets or administration -- Notice -- Consent required.
- 11.98.055 - Judicial transfer of trust assets or administration.
- 11.98.060 - Power of successor trustee.
- 11.98.065 - Change in form of corporate trustee.
- 11.98.070 - Power of trustee.
- 11.98.080 - Consolidation of trusts.
- 11.98.090 - Nonliability of third persons without knowledge of breach.
- 11.98.100 - Nonliability for action or inaction based on lack of knowledge of events.
- 11.98.110 - Contract and tort liability.
- 11.98.130 - Rule against perpetuities.
- 11.98.140 - Distribution and vesting of assets.
- 11.98.150 - Distribution of assets after one hundred fifty year period.
- 11.98.160 - Effective date of irrevocable inter vivos trust -- Effective date of revocable inter vivos or testamentary trust.
- 11.98.170 - Designation of trustee as beneficiary of life insurance policy or retirement plan -- Determination of proper recipient of proceeds -- Definitions -- Beneficiary designations executed befor
- 11.98.200 - Beneficiary trustee -- Limitations on power.
- 11.98.210 - Beneficiary trustee -- Disregard of provision conferring absolute or similar power -- Power of removal.
- 11.98.220 - Beneficiary trustee -- Inferences of law -- Judicial review.
- 11.98.230 - Beneficiary trustee -- Income under marital deduction -- Spousal power of appointment.
- 11.98.240 - Beneficiary trustee -- Applicability -- Exceptions -- Election of exception -- Cause of action.
- 11.98.900 - Application of RCW 11.98.130 through 11.98.160.
- 11.98.910 - Severability -- 1959 c 124.
- 11.98.920 - Short title.
- 11.98.930 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 11.99 - Construction.
- RCW Dispositions
- 11.60 - Performance of decedent's contracts
- 11.110 - Charitable trusts
- 11.40 - Claims against estate
- 11.20 - Custody, proof, and probate of wills
- 11.04 - Descent and distribution
- 11.86 - Disclaimer of interests
- 11.72 - Distribution before settlement
- 11.08 - Escheats
- 11.02 - General provisions
- 11.88 - Guardianship — appointment, qualification, removal of guardians
- 11.92 - Guardianship — powers and duties of guardian or limited guardian
- 11.84 - Inheritance rights of slayers
- 11.44 - Inventory and appraisement
- 11.96 - Jurisdiction and proceedings
- 11.16 - Jurisdiction — venue — notices
- 11.28 - Letters testamentary and of administration
- 11.48 - Personal representatives — general provisions — actions by and against
- 11.95 - Powers of appointment
- 11.52 - Provisions for family support
- 11.36 - Qualifications of personal representatives
- 11.56 - Sales, exchanges, leases, mortgages, and borrowing
- 11.42 - Settlement of creditor claims for estates passing without probate
- 11.76 - Settlement of estates
- 11.68 - Settlement of estates without administration
- 11.98 - Trusts
- 11.93 - Uniform gifts to minors act
- 11.05 - Uniform simultaneous death act
- 11.104 - Washington principal and income act
- 11.12 - Wills
- Notes