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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">This CPA appears immediately characterize gifts and inheritances as CP. How did the husband acquire separate funds to acquire separate property?
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>John McCrady<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2025 12:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property (<a href="mailto:wsbarp@LISTS.WSBARPPT.COM">wsbarp@LISTS.WSBARPPT.COM</a>) <<a href="mailto:wsbarp@LISTS.WSBARPPT.COM">wsbarp@LISTS.WSBARPPT.COM</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Community Property Agreements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Has anyone dealt with a situation where a HWF execute and record a CPA with the standard language:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">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”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">At face value I think the CPA should work immediately to re-create community property.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Has anyone had any experience with this type of situation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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