RCW 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 after entering into a state registered domestic partnership, the owner of the property may maintain an action therefor, or for any right growing out of the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were unmarried or were not in a state registered domestic partnership.
[ 2008 c 6 § 615; Code 1881 § 2401; 1879 p 80 § 28; 1873 p 452 § 8; RRS § 6903.]
NOTES:
Part headings not law—Severability—2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.
Privileged communications: RCW 5.60.060.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
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.
26.16.205 - 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.