Tag: Property Status Agreements

Splitting Up the Property When You Aren’t Married but End Your Relationship

Apr 18, 2014

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in Committed Intimate Relationship, Power of Attorney, Property Division

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It’s no mystery – a lot of people fall in love, live together, but never get married. And in Washington, the law sometimes causes confusion when it comes to dissolving that kind of relationship, especially around property division. The rules about property during divorce and at death are often clearer for people who elect to…