[WSBAPT] Separate or Community Property or both?

[Jon Fritzler]

Decedent and Surviving Spouse (SS) were married for 22 years.  Decedent owned a house prior to marriage but mortgage payments were made throughout the marriage.  (There is still a balance owed on a mortgage.) Is the entire house separate property because decedent purchased it prior to the marriage or is it community property to the extent that mortgage payments were made during the marriage?

It matters because the decedent died intestate and never had any children but his siblings are entitled to 25% of his separate property pursuant to RCW 11.04.015.

Jon M. Fritzler
Attorney at Law

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