2013 Revised Code of Washington
Title 7 - SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS AND ACTIONS
7.52 Partition.
7.52.440 Unequal partition -- Compensation adjudged.


WA Rev Code § 7.52.440 (2013) What's This?

RCW 7.52.440 Unequal partition — Compensation adjudged.

When it appears that partition cannot be made equal between the parties according to their respective rights, without prejudice to the rights and interests of some of them, the court may adjudge compensation to be made by one party to another on account of the inequality of partition; but such compensation shall not be required to be made to others by owners unknown, nor by infants, unless in case of an infant it appear that he or she has personal property sufficient for that purpose, and that his or her interest will be promoted thereby.

[2011 c 336 § 232; Code 1881 § 595; 1877 p 124 § 600; 1869 p 141 § 549; RRS § 881.]


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