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Chapter 11.80 RCW

ESTATES OF ABSENTEES

Complete chapter HTMLPDF

Sections

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

Notes:

Unknown heirs, etc.—Pleading, etc.: RCW 4.28.140 through 4.28.160; Rules of court: CR 10.
Written finding of presumed death, missing in action, etc.: RCW 5.40.020 through 5.40.040.