Washington has no personal or corporate income tax, which is one of the reasons businesses move here. What it has instead is the business and occupation tax, and the single most important thing to understand about it is that it…
Washington adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, and chapter 64.80 RCW gives a Washington owner something an Idaho owner cannot have: a way to pass real property at death by recording a deed, without probate and without…
Washington replaced its adult guardianship law with the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act, and the adult provisions took effect on 1 January 2022. The change was not cosmetic. It reordered the court’s starting assumption, and families who…
The community property agreement is Washington’s distinctive contribution to estate planning, and for a particular kind of couple it is close to perfect. It is short, it costs almost nothing, and executed properly under RCW 26.16.120 it converts the couple’s…
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