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Washington Probate Instructions

Assets That Slip Through the Cracks

The tangible personal property, cash, bank & securities accounts, real property, and so forth are all pretty self-evident.  Assets that are often overlooked usually fall through some of the following cracks:

• Income items that were due and payable but not yet paid at Decedent's death; examples:
   

  • Interest due,
     

  • Paychecks due,
     

  • Refunds due,
     

  • Rents due, etc.
     

• Security deposits.
   

• Cash value of insurance policies owned by Decedent on another's life.
   

• Decedent's community property interest in surviving spouse's IRAs and employee benefit plans.

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