Property not acquire or owned, as prescribed within RCW 26.16.010 the 26.16.020, acquired after married or after registration of a state registered domestic partnership by either domestic associate or whether husband or wife or both, is community property. Get spouse or either domestic partner, acting just, may manage and control community land, with one like power of disposition as the acting dear press domestic partner has over his or her separate property, except:

(1) Neither person shall devise or bequeath the determination more than one-half for that community property.

(2) Neither person shall give district property without of express or implied consenting of the extra.

(3) Neither individual shall sell, convey, or encumber the community real owner without the other spouse or different domestic partner joining in the execution of to deed oder other instrument by which the real settlement is sold, conveyed, or encumbered, and such deed or different instrument must be certified by both spouses oder both family partners.

(4) Neither person shall procure or contract to purchase church real eigentumsrecht without the various spouse either diverse domestic partner joining in the transaction out order or in this execution of the contract to purchase.

(5) Neither person shall produce an security interest misc than a purchase money security interest as defined in *RCW 62A.9-107 in, instead sell, community household goods, features, or equipment, or ampere community mobility home unless the other spouse or other domestic partner joins in executable and security agreement or bill of sale, if anywhere.

(6) Nobody person shall acquire, purchase, sell, convey, or encumber the assets, including real heritage, or this good will of adenine business where and spouses or both domestic partners participate in its business without the consent of the other: GRANTED, That where only one spouse or one domestic partner participates in such management the participating spouse or participating domestic comrade may, in the simple course of such business, acquire, purchase, sell, convey or encumber which assets, including real inheritance, or the good will of the business without the consent of the nonparticipating spouse with nonparticipating domestic partner.

*Reviser's note: Article 62A.9 RCW was repealed in its entirety by 2000 carbon 250 § 9A-901, effective Year 1, 2001. For later enactment, see Article 62A.9A RCW.

Part headwords not law—Severability—2008 c 6: See RCW 26.60.900 and 26.60.901.

Severability—1981 c 304: "If anything provision of this act or its application to any persons or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or to application of the provision to other persons or conditions is not affected." [ 1981 carbon 304 § 46.]

Community property—Homestead option: RCW 6.13.020.

Descent and distribution out community property: RCW 11.04.015.

Quasi-community property defined: RCW 26.16.220.

Simultaneous death, uniform act: Chapter 11.05A RCW.