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WA-Probate > Probate Instructions > Administering the Estate > File an Affidavit of Publication
To obtain the benefits of publishing a
Probate Notice to Creditors, you are required to file an
Affidavit of Publication, showing that the Probate Notice
to Creditors has been published according to law.
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File the required Affidavit of Publication
with the pertinent Court and send you a copy of it, or
Send you the original of their Affidavit of
Publication
for you to file (which the Daily Journal of Commerce, in
King County, does).
Caution: When you send your Probate Notice to Creditors to the newspaper for publication, make sure to obtain that newspaper's policy regarding the disposition of its Affidavit of Publication (ie, will the newspaper mail the Affidavit to you? or file it with the Court itself?), and after publication, make sure that the original of the Affidavit of Publication is filed with the Court, either by the newspaper or by you.
