[WSBARP] Community Property Agreements

[Jason Burnett]

This CPA appears immediately characterize gifts and inheritances as CP. How did the husband acquire separate funds to acquire separate property?

Jason W. Burnett
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Subject: [WSBARP] Community Property Agreements

Has anyone dealt with a situation where a HWF execute and record a CPA with the standard language:


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Years later the husband buys a parcel of land as his separate property, and Wife executes and records a Quit Claim Deed “to separate community property”

At face value I think the CPA should work immediately to re-create community property.
However, I did find a Division III opinion that, under somewhat different circumstances, viewed the Quit Claim Deed as a partial revocation of the CPA.

Has anyone had any experience with this type of situation?



John McCrady
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