If there was no will, the Declaration of Completion is slightly different. The personal representative must (1) file the Declaration with the court and then (2) within five days mail the Declaration of Completion to all parties interested in the estate who have not waived their right to receive notice of the filing of the Declaration of Completion. It also describes the amount of fees that were paid to the personal representative and any accountant, attorney and appraiser. The Declaration contains information listed in RCW 11.68.110 that concerns the decedent and the probate of the estate. You can find a sample Declaration of Completion containing such language on the Documents page. If a personal representative or administrator was given nonintervention powers, closing a probate can normally be accomplished without returning to court, through the use of a Declaration of Completion. You should then mail that Statement to all of the parties. However, the King County Clerk expects most probates to be concluded within a year, and if yours isn’t, the Clerk wants you to file a Statement of Case Status (PDF) (Word) explaining why it isn’t closed. Under RCW 11.48.010, you are required to administer the estate as “rapidly and quickly as possible.” How long that takes depends on the specific circumstances of each case. Each of these methods is described below. If the court has not granted you nonintervention powers, you cannot use a Declaration of Completion or a Petition for a Decree of Distribution to close the probate. Instead, you must file a Final Report and Petition for Distribution and have a hearing where the court reviews your Report and Petition. The final option is filing a Final Report and Petition for Distribution, which also requires a court hearing. An alternative to this process is filing a Petition for a Decree of Distribution, which requires a court hearing. The most common and easiest method by far for doing this is through the use of a Declaration of Completion. ![]() Once you have liquidated all of the decedent's property or otherwise gotten all assets out of the decedent's name, taken care of all creditors, and handled all tax issues, you can usually close the probate.
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