Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 26.16 - Rights and Liabilities—Community Property.
26.16.020 - Separate property of domestic partner.

RCW 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, bequest, devise, descent, or inheritance, with the rents, issues and profits thereof, shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of his or her domestic partner, and he or she may manage, lease, sell, convey, encumber or devise by will such property without his or her domestic partner joining in such management, alienation, or encumbrance, as fully, to the same extent and in the same manner as though he or she were not in a state registered domestic partnership.

[ 2008 c 6 § 603; Code 1881 § 2400; RRS § 6891. Prior: See Reviser's note following RCW 26.16.010.]
NOTES:

Reviser's note: See notes following RCW 26.16.010.


Part headings not law—Severability—2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.


Civil disabilities of wife abolished: RCW 26.16.160.


Earnings of spouse or domestic partner and minor children living apart: RCW 26.16.140.


Exemption of separate property of married person from attachment and execution upon liability of spouse: RCW 6.15.040.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 26 - Domestic Relations

Chapter 26.16 - Rights and Liabilities—Community Property.

26.16.010 - Separate property of spouse.

26.16.020 - Separate property of domestic partner.

26.16.030 - Community property defined—Management and control.

26.16.040 - Community realty subject to liens, execution.

26.16.050 - Conveyances between spouses or domestic partners.

26.16.060 - Power of attorney between spouses or domestic partners.

26.16.070 - Powers of attorney as to separate estate.

26.16.080 - Execution of conveyance under power.

26.16.090 - Powers of attorney as to community estate.

26.16.095 - Purchaser of community real property protected by record title.

26.16.100 - Claim of spouse or domestic partner in community realty to be filed.

26.16.110 - Cloud on title—Removal.

26.16.120 - Agreements as to status.

26.16.125 - Custody of children.

26.16.140 - Earnings and accumulations of spouses or domestic partners living apart, minor children.

26.16.150 - Rights of married persons or domestic partners in general.

26.16.160 - Civil disabilities of wife abolished.

26.16.180 - Spouses or domestic partners may sue each other.

26.16.190 - Liability for acts of other spouse or other domestic partner.

26.16.200 - Debts incurred before marriage or domestic partnership—Separate debts—Child support obligation—Liability.

26.16.205 - Liability for family support—Support obligation of stepparent.

26.16.210 - Burden of proof in transactions between spouses or domestic partners.

26.16.220 - Quasi-community property defined.

26.16.230 - Quasi-community property—Disposition at death.

26.16.240 - Quasi-community property—Effect of lifetime transfers—Claims by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner—Waiver.

26.16.250 - Quasi-community property—Characterization limited to determination of disposition at death—Waiver by written agreement.