BILL REQ. #:  S-0424.1 

Read first time 01/17/13.   Referred to Committee on Law & Justice .

     AN ACT Relating to will provisions; and amending RCW 11.12.051.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 11.12.051 and 2008 c 6 s 910 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) If, after making a will, the testator's marriage or domestic partnership is dissolved, invalidated, or terminated, all provisions in the will in favor of or granting any interest or power to the testator's former spouse ((or)), former domestic partner, or stepchild from the former spouse or domestic partner are revoked, unless the will expressly provides otherwise. Provisions affected by this section must be interpreted, and property affected passes, as if the former spouse ((or)), former domestic partner, or stepchild from the former spouse or domestic partner failed to survive the testator, having died at the time of entry of the decree of dissolution or declaration of invalidity. Provisions revoked by this section are revived by the testator's remarriage to the former spouse or reregistration of the domestic partnership with the former domestic partner. Revocation of certain nonprobate transfers is provided under RCW 11.07.010.
     (2) This section is remedial in nature and applies to decrees of dissolution and declarations of invalidity entered before, on, or after January 1, 1995.