[WSBARP] Hawaii divorce w/ Wash property

Thu Mar 10 12:34:43 PST 2022

Not that it would necessarily help in this matter, but have you considered a quiet title action forcing the court to make a decision regarding ownership of the property using the Hawaii divorce decree as support for your client’s claims?

Also, I don’t know if you have tried searching for the former husband, but familytreenow.com often has a lot of current information on individuals and its free. You only need a first and last name and a city/state they have lived at to do a search. You could even search with your client’s name and see if her former spouse is listed among her known associates (its scary how much information this site has). It has current information including address, email, and telephone numbers. If you can find him, you can reach out and see if he’d execute a quitclaim deed to her. 

My firm does not handle family law cases, but in the few instances where we have for uncontested divorces, we usually include a quitclaim deed conveying the spouse’s ownership interest to the other spouse among the various documents that get executed so that it gets taken care of in as timely a manner as possible from the date the decree is awarded. 

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Jennifer Tengono

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Subject: Re: [WSBARP] Hawaii divorce w/ Wash property

Dwight, this is exactly the answer I did not want to hear.  Has anyone done a procedure like this that can help me, or do it themselves?  Thanks.

Very Truly Yours,

Robert R. Cole

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On 3/9/2022 1:08 PM, Dwight Bickel wrote:

The HA court cannot change vesting for WA real property. It only has jurisdiction of the people. It can order her to convey, and WA courts will help him to enforce that.

Dwight A. Bickel

Real Property Title Advisor

Washington Title Professional

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Subject: [WSBARP] Hawaii divorce w/ Wash property

Client's husband obtained a divorce from her  in Hawaii.  In it the Snohomish County residence was awarded to Wife.  She tells me the title company says that Hawaiian decree doesn't hold water in Washington.  I can file that foreign Decree pursuant to 6.36.025.  But will that take care of the issue that the Hawaii judge can't decide who owns WA property?  If not, what to do?  (Also, whereabouts of husband is unknown, and the property is being foreclosed.)

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Very Truly Yours,

Robert R. Cole

Law Office of Cole & Gilday, P.C. 

10101 - 270th St. NW 

Stanwood, WA 98292 

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