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IN RE ESTATE OF HAVILAND

No. 65101-3-1.

251 P.3d 289 (2011)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF James W. HAVILAND. Donald Haviland, Elizabeth Haviland, and Martha Clauser, Appellants, v. Mary Haviland, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

May 16, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol S. Vaughn , Suzanne Churchwell Howle , Howard Mark Goodfriend , Smith Goodfriend PS, Seattle, WA, for Appellants.

Ladd B. Leavens , William Kennedy Rasmussen , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

James L. Furman, Jr. , Aiken, St. Louis & Siljeg P.S., Seattle, WA, for Estate of James W. Haviland (Other Party).

GROSSE, J.

¶ 1 The 2009 amendments to Washington's slayer statute, chapter 11.84 RCW, which prohibit a person who exploits a vulnerable adult from benefiting from the vulnerable adult's death, apply prospectively to probate petitions filed after the amendments' effective date even when the abuse and death occur before that date. The event that triggers application of the statute is the filing of the petition in probate. Here, after the decedent's 2006 will was...

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