IN RE ESTATE OF BURKS

No. 31212-3-II.

100 P.3d 328 (2004)

In re the ESTATE OF Catherine M. BURKS, Deceased; Charlene Popplewell, Personal Representative; and Robert Bisom, Appellants, v. Terry KIDD, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

November 9, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Charles Morgan, Attorney at Law, Tacoma, WA., John Theodore Robson, Attorney at Law, University Place, WA., for Respondent.

Douglas N. Kiger, Blado Stratton & Kiger PS, Tacoma, WA., for Appellants.


ARMSTRONG, J.

Two payable-on-death account beneficiaries appeal a superior court ruling that the payable-on-death accounts were probate assets to be distributed under the decedent's will rather than to the beneficiaries named on the accounts. The death beneficiaries argue that the decedent failed to comply with RCW 11.11.020, which allows a person to change the beneficiaries of payable-on-death accounts by specifically referring to the accounts and specifically naming...

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