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Community property — with EVERYTHING before the court

Washington is a community-property state that divides just-and-equitably, without regard to misconduct — and unlike any other state on this platform, SEPARATE property is before the court too: the statute reaches property 'either community or separate' when a just and equitable division requires it. Characterization still matters enormously; untouchability is not the reason.

The honesty note

Title form, tracing, and commingling move items between categories, and Washington has no statutory date-of-separation cutoff like California's — exactly the calls that deserve counsel.

Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus

RCW 26.09.080 · #a0de299dRCW 26.16.010 · #28e63662RCW 26.16.030 · #f5db6106

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Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county practice defer to your superior court's clerk-maintained local rules (GR 7(d)) and the courthouse facilitator — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.