Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 26 Domestic Relations - Chapter 26.16 Rights And Liabilities -- Community Property

26.16.010 Separate property of spouse
Property and pecuniary rights owned by a spouse before marriage and that acquired by him or her afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, descent, or inheritance, ...

26.16.020 Separate property of domestic partner
Property and pecuniary rights owned by a person in a state registered domestic partnership before registration of the domestic partnership or afterwards acquired by gift, ...

26.16.030 Community property defined -- Management and control
Property not acquired or owned, as prescribed in RCW 26.16.010 and 26.16.020, acquired after marriage or after registration of a state registered domestic partnership by ...

26.16.040 Community realty subject to liens, execution
Community real estate shall be subject to the liens of mechanics and others for labor and materials furnished in erecting structures and improvements thereon as ...

26.16.050 Conveyances between spouses or domestic partners
A spouse or domestic partner may give, grant, sell or convey directly to the other spouse or other domestic partner his or her community right, ...

26.16.060 Power of attorney between spouses or domestic partners
A spouse or domestic partner may constitute the other his or her attorney-in-fact to manage, control or dispose of his or her property with the ...

26.16.070 Powers of attorney as to separate estate
A spouse or domestic partner may make and execute powers of attorney for the sale, conveyance, transfer or encumbrance of his or her separate estate ...

26.16.080 Execution of conveyance under power
Any conveyance, transfer, deed, lease or other encumbrances executed under and by virtue of such power of attorney shall be executed, acknowledged and certified in ...

26.16.090 Powers of attorney as to community estate
A spouse or domestic partner may make and execute a letter of attorney to his or her spouse or domestic partner authorizing the sale or ...

26.16.095 Purchaser of community real property protected by record title
Whenever any person, married, in a state registered domestic partnership, or single, having in his or her name the legal title of record to any ...

26.16.100 Claim of spouse or domestic partner in community realty to be filed
A spouse or domestic partner having an interest in real estate, by virtue of the marriage relation or state registered domestic partnership, the legal title ...

26.16.110 Cloud on title -- Removal
The instrument in writing provided for in RCW 26.16.100 shall be deemed to be a cloud upon the title of said real estate, and may ...

26.16.120 Agreements as to status
Nothing contained in any of the provisions of *this chapter or in any law of this state, shall prevent both spouses or both domestic partners ...

26.16.125 Custody of children
Henceforth the rights and responsibilities of the parents in the absence of misconduct shall be equal, and one parent shall be as fully entitled to ...

26.16.140 Earnings and accumulations of spouses or domestic partners living apart, minor children
When spouses or domestic partners are living separate and apart, their respective earnings and accumulations shall be the separate property of each. The earnings and ...

26.16.150 Rights of married persons or domestic partners in general
Every married person or domestic partner shall hereafter have the same right and liberty to acquire, hold, enjoy and dispose of every species of property, ...

26.16.160 Civil disabilities of wife abolished
All laws which impose or recognize civil disabilities upon a wife, which are not imposed or recognized as existing as to the husband, are hereby ...

26.16.180 Spouses or domestic partners may sue each other
Should either spouse or either domestic partner obtain possession or control of property belonging to the other, either before or after marriage or before or ...

26.16.190 Liability for acts of other spouse or other domestic partner
For all injuries committed by a married person or domestic partner, there shall be no recovery against the separate property of the other spouse or ...

26.16.200 Debts incurred before marriage or domestic partnership -- Separate debts -- Child support obligation -- Liability
Neither person in a marriage or state registered domestic partnership is liable for the debts or liabilities of the other incurred before marriage or state ...

26.16.205 Liability for family support -- Support obligation of stepparent
The expenses of the family and the education of the children, including stepchildren, are chargeable upon the property of both spouses or both domestic partners, ...

26.16.210 Burden of proof in transactions between spouses or domestic partners
In every case, where any question arises as to the good faith of any transaction between spouses or between domestic partners, whether a transaction between ...

26.16.220 Quasi-community property defined
(1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, as used in RCW 26.16.220 through 26.16.250 "quasi-community property" means all personal property wherever situated and all real ...

26.16.230 Quasi-community property -- Disposition at death
Upon the death of any person domiciled in this state, one-half of any quasi-community property shall belong to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner ...

26.16.240 Quasi-community property -- Effect of lifetime transfers -- Claims by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner -- Waiver
(1) If a decedent domiciled in this state on the date of his or her death made a lifetime transfer of a property interest that ...

26.16.250 Quasi-community property -- Characterization limited to determination of disposition at death -- Waiver by written agreement
The characterization of property as quasi-community property under this chapter shall be effective solely for the purpose of determining the disposition of such property at ...