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Wash. Rev. Code § 11.04.095 (2026)

Inheritance from stepparent avoids escheat

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If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and issue by a former spouse or former domestic partner and leaving a will whereby all or substantially all of the deceased's property passes to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner or having before death conveyed all or substantially all his or her property to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, and afterwards the latter dies without heirs and without disposing of his or her property by will so that except for this section the same would all escheat, the issue of the spouse or domestic partner first deceased who survive the spouse or domestic partner last deceased shall take and inherit from the spouse or domestic partner last deceased the property so acquired by will or conveyance or the equivalent thereof in money or other property; if such issue are all in the same degree of kinship to the spouse or domestic partner first deceased they shall take equally, or, if of unequal degree, then those of more remote degree shall take by representation with respect to such spouse or such domestic partner first deceased.
[ 2008 c 6 s 905; 1965 c 145 s 11.04.095. Prior: 1919 c 197 s 1; RCW 11.08.010; RRS s 1356-1.]

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Part headings not law—Severability—2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1975–2020 · leading case: Klossner v. San Juan Cnty., 605 P.2d 330 (Wash. 1980).
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Klossner v. San Juan Cnty., 605 P.2d 330 (Wash. 1980). · cites it 3× “RCW 11.04.095. Moreover, the legislature has specifically limited a stepchild's right of support from a stepparent to the period of the marriage between the child's natural parent and the stepparent.”
Washington Statewide Org. of Stepparents v. Smith, 536 P.2d 1202 (Wash. 1975). · cites it 2× “RCW 11.04.095 provides for inheritance from a stepparent in order to avoid escheat of property to the state.”
Mark D. Stine v. Dep't Of Revenue (Wash. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 24× “Stine argues this court should interpret RCW 11.04.095 to grant him the right of inheritance.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 11.04.095(3) — 1 case
Mark D. Stine v. Dep't Of Revenue (Wash. Ct. App. 2020). “Stine argues this court should interpret RCW 11.04.095 to grant him the right of inheritance.”
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