§ 11.11.003 Purposes
§ 11.11.005 Construction
§ 11.11.007 Intent — Controversies between beneficiaries and testamentary beneficiaries
§ 11.11.010 Definitions
§ 11.11.020 Disposition of nonprobate assets under will
§ 11.11.030 Waiver of right to dispose of a nonprobate asset under will — Revocation of waiver
§ 11.11.040 Right to rely on form of nonprobate asset — Discharge of financial institution or other third party
§ 11.11.050 Notice — Affidavit — Form — Limitation on liability for failure to provide notice
§ 11.11.060 Vesting of rights and powers under chapter
§ 11.11.070 Ownership rights as between individuals preserved — Testamentary beneficiary may recover nonprobate asset from beneficiary — Limitation on action to recover
§ 11.11.080 Nonprobate assets not property of estate — Effect of notice on administration — Effect of preceding death of devisee or legatee
§ 11.11.090 Transfer of nonprobate asset to testamentary beneficiary
§ 11.11.100 Authority to withhold transfer — Notice — Expenses of obtaining consent, authorization, direction
§ 11.11.110 Adverse claim bond
§ 11.11.900 Short title
§ 11.11.901 Application of chapter
§ 11.11.903 Effective dates — 1998 c 292
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 11.11 - Testamentary disposition of nonprobate assets act

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Washington Code 11.02.005
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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 property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • 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