# RCW 11.04.095: RCW 11.04.095: Inheritance from stepparent avoids escheat

> Washington · Statutes · In force

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S095

## Section

- **Citation:** RCW 11.04.095
- **Heading:** RCW 11.04.095: Inheritance from stepparent avoids escheat
- **Jurisdiction:** Washington
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Washington Code / Title 11 / Chapter 04 / Section 095

## Text

If a person dies leaving a surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and issue by a former spouse or former domestic partner and leaving a will whereby all or substantially all of the deceased's property passes to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner or having before death conveyed all or substantially all his or her property to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, and afterwards the latter dies without heirs and without disposing of his or her property by will so that except for this section the same would all escheat, the issue of the spouse or domestic partner first deceased who survive the spouse or domestic partner last deceased shall take and inherit from the spouse or domestic partner last deceased the property so acquired by will or conveyance or the equivalent thereof in money or other property; if such issue are all in the same degree of kinship to the spouse or domestic partner first deceased they shall take equally, or, if of unequal degree, then those of more remote degree shall take by representation with respect to such spouse or such domestic partner first deceased.

## Nearby sections

- [RCW 11.04.015 RCW 11.04.015: Descent and distribution of real and personal estate.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S015.md)
- [RCW 11.04.035 RCW 11.04.035: Kindred of the half blood.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S035.md)
- [RCW 11.04.041 RCW 11.04.041: Advancements.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S041.md)
- [RCW 11.04.060 RCW 11.04.060: Tenancy in dower and by curtesy abolished.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S060.md)
- [RCW 11.04.071 RCW 11.04.071: Survivorship as incident of tenancy by the entireties abolished.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S071.md)
- [RCW 11.04.081 RCW 11.04.081: Inheritance by and from any child not dependent upon marriage of parents.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S081.md)
- [RCW 11.04.085 RCW 11.04.085: Inheritance by adopted child.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S085.md)
- [RCW 11.04.095 RCW 11.04.095: Inheritance from stepparent avoids escheat.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S095.md)
- [RCW 11.04.230 RCW 11.04.230: United States savings bond—Effect of death of co-owner.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S230.md)
- [RCW 11.04.240 RCW 11.04.240: United States savings bond—Effect of beneficiary's survival of registered owner.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S240.md)
- [RCW 11.04.250 RCW 11.04.250: When real estate vests—Rights of heirs.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S250.md)
- [RCW 11.04.290 RCW 11.04.290: Vesting of title.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T11_C04_S290.md)

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