Washington Code 26.16.020 – Separate property of domestic partner
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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.
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.
Terms Used In Washington Code 26.16.020
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080