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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=64.28.040">http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=64.28.040</a> As I
recall, it was adopted to ensure that married couples' property
would get a stepped-up basis as community property even thought it
might be titled as a joint tenancy.<br>
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Doug Schafer, in Tacoma.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/12/2018 3:30 PM, Teunis J. Wyers
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<div dir="ltr">Washington couple owns significant assets as joint
tenants with right of survivorship. I am thinking that upon the
death of one spouse, there would be stepped-up basis in half the
value of their real property, whereas if they owned the property
as community property, there would be a step up in the entire
property value.
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<div>Second question: why would married persons in Washington
ever want to hold real property as joint tenants with right of
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