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Contesting a Washington will runs on RCW 11.24.010: four months from the order probating or rejecting it, 90 days to serve, and the contestant proves the case.
Washington will requirements under RCW 11.12.020: a signed writing plus two competent witnesses, in person or by electronic presence. No holographic wills.
Washington bars a creditor claim four months after first publication of the notice to creditors, or 24 months after the death when no notice went out.
An inherited home is rarely a routine listing. What to ask a Virginia Realtor before you hire one, and what a good one checks before the house is listed.
Vermont has no transfer on death deed. It has a codified enhanced life estate deed at 27 V.S.A. chapter 6, plus trusts, survivorship, and beneficiary forms.
Selling inherited property in Vermont runs on a license to sell under 14 V.S.A. § 1651 or a recorded decree of distribution. The town clerk records the deed.
Vermont puts the health care agent, treatment wishes, and disposition of remains in one advance directive under 18 V.S.A. chapter 231. Two witnesses, no notary.
Vermont ancillary probate runs under 14 V.S.A. § 113. A will allowed in another state opens a case in the county Probate Division where the Vermont land sits.
Vermont gives creditors four months from the first publication of notice to creditors, not from the date of death, under 14 V.S.A. § 1203(a)(1).
14 V.S.A. § 1205 ranks a Vermont estate's debts in four classes, and that order binds only when the assets fall short of paying every claim.
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