Synopsis: Whether an amendment to the slayer statute, RCW 11.84.020, extending the statute to abusers is given improper retroactive effect when applied to a petition to adjudicate as an abuser a beneficiary of a decedent who died before the effective date of the amendment.
Docket No. 86412-8 (from Court of Appeals Division I Case No. 65101-3)
Petitioner: Mary Haviland
Respondent: Martha Clauser, Donald Haviland, Elizabeth Haviland, and Richard L. Furman, Administrator of the Estate
Briefs:
- Administrator's Answer to Petition for Review
- Amicus of Bruce R Moen
- Amicus of Ncea
- Amicus of Wapg
- Answer to Petition for Review
- Appellant's Brief
- Appellant's Reply
- Appellants' Statement of Additional Auth
- Haviland's Response to Moen Amicus
- Haviland's Response to Wapg Amicus
- Haviland's Statement of Additional Auth
- Petition for Review
- Respondent's Brief
- Supplemental Brief of Furman
- Supplemental Brief of Haviland
- Supplemental Brief of Haviland and Clauser
Argument: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:30am
[Source: TVW, http://tvw.org]
Audio: Washington Supreme Court
Decision: Pending
Madsen
Johnson
Chambers
Owens
Fairhurst
Johnson
Stephens
Wiggins
Gonzalez
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