Washington State Community Property Law
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Washington State Owes Its Citizens Over $700 Million Dollars
The state of Washington is home to some of the world wide web's major players. Even Bill Gates, the United States' richest man, hails from Medina, WA and his company, Microsoft, is based in Redmond. Amazon.com, Classmates.com, Whitepages.com and Marchex also call Washington their home. The fact then, that over 1.5 million residents are owed an excess of $700 million unclaimed money in Washington State is ironic, sense searching for unclaimed money and property can be done online from the comfort Read More... -
Jointly Owned Property
The property that couples accumulate during marriage is called, straightforwardly enough, marital property. Depending on which state you live in, however, marital property will take different forms. Community Property: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. (Alaska also gives married couples the option of identifying property held in trust as community property.) In community property states, all earnings during marriage and all property acq Read More... -
A Look At Washington States CJs Law
“C.J.’s Law”, a law passed in 1998 in the State of Washington, requires certain cube-style deliver trucks to have rear crossview mirrors or a back-up device to alert the driver when someone or something is behind the vehicle. A young child, C.J. Norton, was tragically killed in Lynnwood, Washington in a parking lot when a delivery truck backed over him. The desire for a new law to protect not only children but all people from accidents like this was pushed for by C.J.’s grandparents. Now mir Read More...
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