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.
RCW 26.16.020
Separate property of domestic partner.
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 100 Wash. 2d 729 - In Re the Marriage of Brown (1984)
Most recently applied in Copper Leaf, Llc, V. Ace Paving Co. Inc. (July 2024)
2008 c 6 s 603; Code 1881 s 2400; RRS s 6891
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Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.