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are kept by the court clerk until any appeal is finished. The clerk will then ask you what the clerk should do with your exhibits. Either pick them up or after time, the exhibits will be destroyed by the clerk. If the clerk does not hear from the owner of the exhibits, the exhibits will under go total destruction.
On the Pierce County Clerk of the Superior Court website, on the Request Court Records webpage it has this warning, **SOCIAL SECURITY WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY ELECTRONICALLY CERTIFIED DOCUMENTS**.
The reason for this is once you hand an original to the clerk for filing, it will be scanned into LINX and you cannot get it back. To avoid this from happening, file a copy of any original you need to preserve. Also, it is a good idea to include a
cover sheet to identify what you are filing. Other originals you would not want to file are documents where the original signature is being challenged, like a dispute of the signing
of a contract or deed. An attorney told me they ran into a problem with an out-of-state will where the will needed to be forwarded to another state to do ancillary probate, and that state court would only accept original foreign wills unless the witnesses appeared and testified to the copy. Washington will
accept an Exemplified Copy. Something for me to look into. Maybe another article.
I hope you enjoyed my article, and for my next article I will write about something I learned in the TPCBA lawyer lounge, 'Objectives and Outcomes for Attorneys.'
David Robert Shelvey is a tax lawyer at a tax office in Sumner. He is a member of the TPCBA, the Pierce County Lawyer Magazine, and the CLE Committee. He has been an attorney since 2015. He also volunteers as president and cook for a local nonprofit. david@rockcraft.org
Welcome Katie and Bryce!
GTH’s Newest Associates Katie Chan and Bryce Knutzen
Katie Chan comes to GTH after serving two years as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Linda Lee of the Washington
Court of Appeals Division II. As a University of Michigan Law School student, Katie worked on issues including civil rights, discrimination in employment and housing, and public defense. Katie will work with the firm’s Litigation group.
Bryce Knutzen joins GTH after serving as a legal intern at the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Appellate Division. While a student attorney and intern at Villanova University School of Law, Bryce represented clients navigating America’s complex tax system. Bryce will have a primarily transactional practice with the firm’s Business & Employment group.
We at GTH are proud to have Katie and Bryce join the firm!
GTH Associates: Ian M. Leifer, Richard B. Lumley, Jeffrey G. Nielsen, Kirsten N. Parris, Chelsea E. Rauch, J. Owen Taylor, Mitchell J. Wright, Emma J. Luton, Caitlin M. Loyd
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