§ 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 allowance and payment of cla
§ 11.42.900 Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 11.42 - Settlement of creditor claims for estates passing without probate

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Issue: means all the lineal descendants of an individual. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Personal representative: includes executor, administrator, special administrator, and conservator or limited conservator and special representative. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Real estate: includes , except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto, and all interest therein possessed and claimed in fee simple, or for the life of a third person. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Trustee: means an original, added, or successor trustee and includes the state, or any agency thereof, when it is acting as the trustee of a trust to which chapter 11. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.