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Wash. Rev. Code § 11.28.290 (2026)

Accounting on death, resignation, or revocation of letters

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If any personal representative resign, or his or her letters be revoked, or he or she die, he or she or his or her representatives shall account for, pay, and deliver to his or her successor or to the surviving or remaining personal representatives, all money and property of every kind, and all rights, credits, deeds, evidences of debt, and papers of every kind, of the deceased, at such time and in such manner as the court shall order on final settlement with such personal representative or his or her legal representatives.
[ 2010 c 8 s 2021; 1965 c 145 s 11.28.290. Prior: 1917 c 156 s 78; RRS s 1448; prior: Code 1881 s 1429; 1854 p 273 s 40.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1958–1985 · leading case: In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Vetter, 711 P.2d 284 (Wash. 1985).
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In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Vetter, 711 P.2d 284 (Wash. 1985). · cites it 2× “RCW 11.28.290 requires the removed personal representative to deliver all property and books to the successor personal representative.”
In re the Est. of Tuott, 606 P.2d 706 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980). · cites it 4× “In addition, RCW 11.28.290 2 requires a retiring personal representative to make a report *263 and account for the property in her possession before being released by the probate court.”
State ex rel. Litchman v. Superior Court, 322 P.2d 354 (Wash. 1958). “The relator assigns as error: (1) the failure of the trial judge to appoint him (the nominee in the will) as executor of the entire estate; (2) the appointment of William David Odman as administrator de bonis non to administer upon the community estate of Reuben J.”
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