that a claimant's present and reasonably anticipated future needs with respect to basic maintenance and support during the pendency of any proceedings under this title relating to the decedent's probate or nonprobate assets will not be provided from other resources and that an increased award would not be inconsistent with the decedent's intentions or principles of equity and fairness, the amount of the award may be increased above the amount of the basic award in an amount that the court determines to be needed for a claimant's present and reasonably anticipated future needs with respect to basic maintenance and support during the pendency of any proceedings under this title relating to the decedent's probate or nonprobate assets.
The fact that the decedent has named beneficiaries other than the claimant as recipients of the decedent's estate is not of itself adequate to evidence such an intent as would prevent the award of an amount in excess of the basic award that is provided in RCW 11.54.020(1).
RCW 11.54.040
*Reviser's note: RCW 6.13.030 was amended by 2021 c 290§ 3, significantly changing subsection (2).
Part headings not law-Severability-2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.
Application-1997 c 252 §§ 1-73: See note following RCW 11.02.005.