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This Marital Domestic Separation and Property Settlement Agreement is a Separation and Property Settlement for persons with no minor children. The parties do have joint property or debts. It is for use after separation. It contains detailed provisions for the division of assets and the payment of liabilities.

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The process is like and uses many of the same forms as divorce. You start by filing FL Divorce Form 203, Petition for Legal Separation. You can get this form from the court forms list at .courts.wa.gov/forms, or you can use one of our Do-It-Yourself packets: File for Legal Separation with Children.

Legal separation in Washington State allows you and your spouse to obtain a court approved Decree of Legal Separation. However, legal separation is not required before filing or obtaining a divorce in Washington.

There are some of the key differences between divorce and legal separation: Waiting period. There is a mandatory 90-days waiting period for marriage dissolution in WA state as soon as the petition was filed with the court.

Both parties agree that the separation agreement includes everything that's relevant and they won't be making any further claims once it's done. Clauses. ... Lists of Assets and Responsibilities. ... Property. ... Personal Effects. ... Financial Assets. ... Joint Debts. ... Maintenance Payments. ... Parental Rights.

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Marital Domestic Separation and Property Settlement Agreement no Children parties may have Joint Property or Debts Effective Immediately

Note: This summary is not intended to be an all inclusive discussion of the law of separation agreements in Washington State, but does include basic and other provisions.

General Summary:

Separation and Property Agreements may be entered into before a divorce is filed to be effective immediately. Upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution or Legal Separation, the contract, except for those terms providing for a parenting plan for their children, shall be binding upon the court unless it finds, after considering the economic circumstances of the parties and any other relevant evidence produced by the parties on their own motion or on request of the court, that the separation contract was unfair at the time of its execution. If a property settlement agreement is incorporated into the decree, it is not subject to later modification.

Statutes:

Separation contracts:

(1) The parties to a marriage, in order to promote the amicable settlement of disputes attendant upon their separation or upon the filing of a petition for dissolution of their marriage, a decree of legal separation, or declaration of invalidity of their marriage, may enter into a written separation contract providing for the maintenance of either of them, the disposition of any property owned by both or either of them, the parenting plan and support for their children and for the release of each other from all obligation except that expressed in the contract.

(2) If the parties to such contract elect to live separate and apart without any court decree, they may record such contract and cause notice thereof to be published in a legal newspaper of the county wherein the parties resided prior to their separation.

Recording such contract and publishing notice of the making thereof shall constitute notice to all persons of such separation and of the facts contained in the recorded document.

(3) If either or both of the parties to a separation contract shall at the time of the execution thereof, or at a subsequent time, petition the court for dissolution of their marriage, for a decree of legal separation, or for a declaration of invalidity of their marriage, the contract, except for those terms providing for a parenting plan for their children, shall be binding upon the court unless it finds, after considering the economic circumstances of the parties and any other relevant evidence produced by the parties on their own motion or on request of the court, that the separation contract was unfair at the time of its execution.

Child support may be included in the separation contract and shall be reviewed in the subsequent proceeding for compliance with RCW 26.19.020.

(4) If the court in an action for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity finds that the separation contract was unfair at the time of its execution, it may make orders for the maintenance of either party, the disposition of their property and the discharge of their obligations.

(5) Unless the separation contract provides to the contrary, the agreement shall be set forth in the decree of dissolution, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity, or filed in the action or made an exhibit and incorporated by reference, except that in all cases the terms of the parenting plan shall be set out in the decree, and the parties shall be ordered to comply with its terms.

(6) Terms of the contract set forth or incorporated by reference in the decree may be enforced by all remedies available for the enforcement of a judgment, including contempt, and are enforceable as contract terms.

(7) When the separation contract so provides, the decree may expressly preclude or limit modification of any provision for maintenance set forth in the decree.

Terms of a separation contract pertaining to a parenting plan for the children and, in the absence of express provision to the contrary, terms providing for maintenance set forth or incorporated by reference in the decree are automatically modified by modification of the decree.

(8) If at any time the parties to the separation contract by mutual agreement elect to terminate the separation contract they may do so without formality unless the contract was recorded as in subsection (2) of this section, in which case a statement should be filed terminating the contract. RCW 26.09.070 [emphasis added]

Modification of decree for maintenance or support, property disposition --

Termination of maintenance obligation and child support -- Grounds:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7) of RCW 26.09.070, the provisions of any decree respecting maintenance or support may be modified:

(a) Only as to installments accruing subsequent to the petition for modification or motion for adjustment except motions to compel court-ordered adjustments, which shall be effective as of the first date specified in the decree for implementing the adjustment; and,

(b) except as otherwise provided in subsections (4), (5), (8), and (9) of this section, only upon a showing of a substantial change of circumstances. The provisions as to property disposition may not be revoked or modified, unless the court finds the existence of conditions that justify the reopening of a judgment under the laws of this state.

(2) Unless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree the obligation to pay future maintenance is terminated upon the death of either party or the remarriage of the party receiving maintenance.

(3) Unless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree, provisions for the support of a child are terminated by emancipation of the child or by the death of the parent obligated to support the child.

RCW 26.09.170

Case Law:

Under RCW 26.09.070(3), amicable agreements are preferred to adversarial resolution of property questions, and the separation contract is, therefore, binding on the parties unless the trial court finds it "unfair" at the time of execution. In re Marriage of Little, 96 Wn.2d 183, 192, 634 P.2d 498 (1981).RCW 26.09.070(3) gives even wider latitude to marital partners to independently dispose of their property by contract, free from court supervision. Nelson v. Collier, 85 Wn.2d 602, 610, 537 P.2d 765 (1975).

A "property settlement agreement" incorporated into a dissolution decree that was not appealed cannot be later modified. Valaer v. Valaer, 45 Wn.2d 565, 570, 277 P.2d 326 (1954).

Marital Domestic Separation and Property Settlement Agreement no Children parties may have Joint Property or Debts Effective Immediately

Note: This summary is not intended to be an all inclusive discussion of the law of separation agreements in Washington State, but does include basic and other provisions.

General Summary:

Statutes:

Separation contracts:

Recording such contract and publishing notice of the making thereof shall constitute notice to all persons of such separation and of the facts contained in the recorded document.

Child support may be included in the separation contract and shall be reviewed in the subsequent proceeding for compliance with RCW 26.19.020.

(7) When the separation contract so provides, the decree may expressly preclude or limit modification of any provision for maintenance set forth in the decree.

Modification of decree for maintenance or support, property disposition --

Termination of maintenance obligation and child support -- Grounds:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (7) of RCW 26.09.070, the provisions of any decree respecting maintenance or support may be modified:

RCW 26.09.170

Case Law:

A "property settlement agreement" incorporated into a dissolution decree that was not appealed cannot be later modified. Valaer v. Valaer, 45 Wn.2d 565, 570, 277 P.2d 326 (1954).

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