Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 11.40 RCW
CLAIMS AGAINST ESTATE
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Sections
11.40.010Claims—Presentation—Other notice not affected.
11.40.020Notice to creditors—Manner—Filings—Publication.
11.40.030Notice to creditors—Form.
11.40.040"Reasonably ascertainable" creditor—Definition—Reasonable diligence—Presumptions—Petition for order.
11.40.051Claims against decedent—Time limits.
11.40.060Claims involving liability or casualty insurance—Limitations—Exceptions to time limits.
11.40.070Claims—Form—Manner of presentation—Waiver of defects.
11.40.080Claims—Duty to allow or reject—Notice of petition to allow—Attorneys' fees.
11.40.090Allowance of claims—Notice—Automatic allowance—Petition for extension—Ranking of claims—Barred claims.
11.40.100Rejection of claim—Time limits—Notice—Compromise of claim.
11.40.110Action pending at decedent's death—Personal representative as defendant.
11.40.120Effect of judgment against personal representative.
11.40.130Judgment against decedent—Execution barred upon decedent's death—Presentation—Sale of property.
11.40.135Secured claim—Creditor's right.
11.40.140Claim of personal representative—Presentation and petition—Filing.
11.40.150Notice to creditors when personal representative resigns, dies, or is removed—Limit tolled by vacancy.
11.40.160Personal representative as successor to notice agent—Notice not affected—Presumptions—Duties.
11.40.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
NOTES:
Action on claim not acted on—Contribution: RCW 11.76.170.
Contingent or disputed claims, procedure: RCW 11.76.190.
Evidence, transaction with person since deceased: RCW 5.60.030.
Judgment against executor or administrator, effect: RCW 4.56.050.
Liability of personal representative: RCW 11.76.160.
Limitation of actions: Chapter 4.16 RCW.
Order maturing claim not due: RCW 11.76.180.
Order of payment of debts: RCW 11.76.110.
Payment of claims where estate insufficient: RCW 11.76.150.
Quasi-community property—Lifetime transfers—Claims by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner: RCW 26.16.240.
Sale, etc., of property—Priority as to realty or personalty: Chapter 11.10 RCW.
Survival of actions: Chapter 4.20 RCW.
Tax constitutes debt—Priority of lien: RCW 82.32.240.