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Chapter 11.40 RCW

CLAIMS AGAINST ESTATE

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RCW dispositions

Sections

HTMLPDF 11.40.010Claims—Presentation—Other notice not affected.
HTMLPDF 11.40.020Notice to creditors—Manner—Filings—Publication.
HTMLPDF 11.40.030Notice to creditors—Form.
HTMLPDF 11.40.040"Reasonably ascertainable" creditor—Definition—Reasonable diligence—Presumptions—Petition for order.
HTMLPDF 11.40.051Claims against decedent—Time limits.
HTMLPDF 11.40.060Claims involving liability or casualty insurance—Limitations—Exceptions to time limits.
HTMLPDF 11.40.070Claims—Form—Manner of presentation—Waiver of defects.
HTMLPDF 11.40.080Claims—Duty to allow or reject—Notice of petition to allow—Attorneys' fees.
HTMLPDF 11.40.090Allowance of claims—Notice—Automatic allowance—Petition for extension—Ranking of claims—Barred claims.
HTMLPDF 11.40.100Rejection of claim—Time limits—Notice—Compromise of claim.
HTMLPDF 11.40.110Action pending at decedent's death—Personal representative as defendant.
HTMLPDF 11.40.120Effect of judgment against personal representative.
HTMLPDF 11.40.130Judgment against decedent—Execution barred upon decedent's death—Presentation—Sale of property.
HTMLPDF 11.40.135Secured claim—Creditor's right.
HTMLPDF 11.40.140Claim of personal representative—Presentation and petition—Filing.
HTMLPDF 11.40.150Notice to creditors when personal representative resigns, dies, or is removed—Limit tolled by vacancy.
HTMLPDF 11.40.160Personal representative as successor to notice agent—Notice not affected—Presumptions—Duties.
HTMLPDF 11.40.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

Notes:

Action on claim not acted on—Contribution: RCW 11.76.170.
Contingent or disputed claims, procedure: RCW 11.76.190.
Evidence, transaction with person since deceased: RCW 5.60.030.
Judgment against executor or administrator, effect: RCW 4.56.050.
Liability of personal representative: RCW 11.76.160.
Limitation of actions: Chapter 4.16 RCW.
Order maturing claim not due: RCW 11.76.180.
Order of payment of debts: RCW 11.76.110.
Payment of claims where estate insufficient: RCW 11.76.150.
Quasi-community property—Lifetime transfers—Claims by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner: RCW 26.16.240.
Sale, etc., of property—Priority as to realty or personalty: Chapter 11.10 RCW.
Survival of actions: Chapter 4.20 RCW.
Tax constitutes debt—Priority of lien: RCW 82.32.240.