§ 11.80.010 Petition — Notice — Hearing — Appointment of trustee
§ 11.80.020 Inventory and appraisement — Bond of trustee
§ 11.80.030 Reports of trustee
§ 11.80.040 Sale of property — Application of proceeds and income
§ 11.80.050 Allowance for support of dependents — Sale of property
§ 11.80.055 Continuation of absentee’s business — Performance of absentee’s contracts
§ 11.80.060 Removal or resignation of trustee — Final account
§ 11.80.070 Period of trusteeship
§ 11.80.080 Provisional distribution — Notice of hearing — Will
§ 11.80.090 Hearing — Distribution — Bond of distributees
§ 11.80.100 Final distribution — Notice of hearing — Decree
§ 11.80.110 Escheat for want of presumptive heirs
§ 11.80.120 Personnel missing in action, interned, or captured construed as “absentee.”
§ 11.80.130 Summary procedure without full trustee proceeding — When permitted — Application for order — Form
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 11.80 - Estates of absentees

  • Administrator: means a personal representative of the estate of a decedent and the term may be used in lieu of "personal representative" wherever required by context. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Issue: means all the lineal descendants of an individual. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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 property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • 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