RCW 11.76.070
Attorney's fees to contestant of erroneous account or report.
If, in any probate or guardianship proceeding, any personal representative shall fail or neglect to report to the court concerning his or her trust and any beneficiary or other interested party shall be reasonably required to employ legal counsel to institute legal proceedings to compel an accounting, or if an erroneous account or report shall be rendered by any personal representative and any beneficiary of said trust or other interested party shall be reasonably required to employ legal counsel to resist said account or report as rendered, and upon a hearing an accounting shall be ordered, or the account as rendered shall not be approved, and the said personal representative shall be charged with further liability, the court before which said proceeding is pending may, in its discretion, in addition to statutory costs, enter judgment for reasonable attorney's fees in favor of the person or persons instituting said proceedings and against said personal representative, and in the event that the surety or sureties upon the bond of said personal representative be made a party to said proceeding, then jointly against said surety and said personal representative, which judgment shall be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as judgments in ordinary civil actions.
[ 2010 c 8 § 2066; 1965 c 145 § 11.76.070. Prior: 1937 c 28 § 2; RRS § 1590-2.]
NOTES:
Rules of court: SPR 98.12W.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 11 - Probate and Trust Law
Chapter 11.76 - Settlement of Estates.
11.76.010 - Report of personal representative—Contents—Interim reports.
11.76.020 - Notice of hearing—Settlement of report.
11.76.030 - Final report and petition for distribution—Contents.
11.76.040 - Time and place of hearing—Notice.
11.76.050 - Hearing on final report—Decree of distribution.
11.76.060 - Continuance to cite in sureties on bond when account incorrect.
11.76.070 - Attorney's fees to contestant of erroneous account or report.
11.76.080 - Representation of incapacitated person by guardian ad litem—Exception.
11.76.095 - Distribution of estates to minors.
11.76.100 - Receipts for expenses from personal representative.
11.76.110 - Order of payment of debts.
11.76.120 - Limitation on preference to mortgage or judgment.
11.76.130 - Expense of monument.
11.76.150 - Payment of claims where estate insufficient.
11.76.160 - Liability of personal representative.
11.76.170 - Action on claim not acted on—Contribution.
11.76.180 - Order maturing claim not due.
11.76.190 - Procedure on contingent and disputed claim.
11.76.200 - Agent for absentee distributee.
11.76.220 - Sale of unclaimed estate—Remittance of proceeds to department of revenue.
11.76.230 - Liability of agent.
11.76.240 - Claimant to proceeds of sale.
11.76.243 - Heirs may institute probate proceedings if no claimant appears.
11.76.245 - Procedure when claim made after time limitation.
11.76.247 - When court retains jurisdiction after entry of decree of distribution.