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. - Washington Statutes

Final distribution upon declaration and notice of filing of declaration of completion of probate — Special powers of personal representative — Discharge from liability.

If the declaration of completion of probate and the notice of filing of declaration of completion of probate state that the personal representative intends to make final distribution within five business days after the final date on which a beneficiary could petition for an order to approve fees or to require an accounting, which date is referred to in this section as the "effective date of the declaration of completion," and if the notice of filing of declaration of completion of probate sent to each beneficiary who has not received everything to which that beneficiary is entitled from the decedent's estate specifies the amount of the minimum distribution to be made to that beneficiary, the personal representative retains, for five business days following the effective date of the declaration of completion, the power to make the stated minimum distributions. In this case, the personal representative is discharged from all claims other than those relating to the actual distribution of the reserve, at the effective date of the declaration of completion. The personal representative is only discharged from liability for the distribution of the reserve when the whole reserve has been distributed and each beneficiary has received at least the distribution which that beneficiary's notice stated that the beneficiary would receive.

[1997 c 252 § 69.]

Notes: Application -- 1997 c 252 §§ 1-73: See note following RCW 11.02.005.