Rodney George Pierce's Legal Cases (2)

Family

In re Marriage of Schweitzer, 132 Wn.2d 318 (1997)

Jan 01, 1997

OUTCOME: Separate property owned by a party may be changed into community property by means of a 3 prong community property agreement.

H & W kept their separate assets separate. The parties entered into a three prong community property agreement. H claimed it was only for a major vacation he was going to take. Both parties intended ... that the CPA would provide for the W in case of the H dying during his vacation. The W testified that the first prong of the CPA was intended to be permanent, i.e., if her husband died on his travels, all their separate property would still be unquestionably converted to community property. H claimed that he did not recall having even read the community property agreement in the first place. The trial court found that the CPA was only for estate planning purposes. The Supreme Court disagreed with the trial court as the record showed that both agreed to the conversion of separate property into community property.

Family

Zion Const., Inc. v. Gilmore, 78 Wn.App. 876 (1995)

Jun 05, 1995

OUTCOME: The appellate court determined that a five relationship was sufficient to establish a long term, stable relationship when almost all cases to that time had been 10 years or more.

Zion started an action to enforce its lien on the real property against Gilmore. Thompson joined the action to protect her meretricious interest in the real property and other assets acquired by the p ... arties during their 5 year relationship. The trial court found that there was a long term, stable relationship between the parties and ordered that Gilmore pay Thompson approximately $100,000. The appellate court opined that the trial court did not err in concluding that Gilmore and Thompson's 5 years of cohabitation constituted a long-term, stable quasi-marital relationship.

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