2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 26.16.020: Separate property of wife.

The property and pecuniary rights of every married woman at the time of her marriage or afterwards acquired by gift, devise or inheritance, with the rents, issues and profits thereof, shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of her husband, and she may manage, lease, sell, convey, encumber or devise by will such property to the same extent and in the same manner that her husband can, property belonging to him.

[Code 1881 § 2400; RRS § 6891. Prior: See Reviser's note following RCW 26.16.010.]

Reviser's note: See notes following RCW 26.16.010. Civil disabilities of wife abolished: RCW 26.16.160. Earnings of parent and minor children living apart: RCW 26.16.140. Exemption of separate property of married person from attachment and execution upon liability of spouse: RCW 6.15.040.