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Date: May 30, 1989
To:
All Washington Agents
RE:
Redemption
Dear Associates:
The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that redemption rights by a debtor cannot be transferred by assignment; they must be transferred by deed. Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank v. Mark, 767 P.2d 1382 (1989).
A debtor attempted to transfer his statutory right of redemption by a document entitled "Assignment of Interest". The assignment purported to "grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer unto...(property description)...includes the right to redeem..." It was neither acknowledged nor recorded.
The court held that a "valid conveyance" is necessary to transfer the right of redemption. An assignment does not work. There must be an acknowledged deed.
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