If you live in a community property state with your spouse, or if you had lived in a community property state with your spouse for any prior period of time, the assets accumulated while there have ...

Under Washington law, all property acquired by either spouse during their marriage is presumed to be community property. Property owned by a spouse prior to marriage or acquired during marriage by ...

Anything that has a beneficiary designation, such as retirement accounts and life insurance, would typically pass to the person named as beneficiary even if that’s not the surviving spouse. Bank and ...

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Even if one’s financial life is fairly uncomplicated, everyone should have a last will and testament. But when leaving the attorney’s office with this important document (or more likely, a “conformed ...