In re the Estate of Feas

Citations

• 30 Wash. 51
• 70 P. 270
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 649

Syllabus

<p>HOMESTEAD-SELECTION.</p> <p>Mere occupancy of property as a home amounted to a selection of a homestead, prior to the enactment of the homestead law of 1895, and a selection made at any time before sale was sufficient to entitle the claimant to exemption.</p> <p>SAME-COMMUNITY ESTATE-SELECTION AETEK WIEE’S DEATH.</p> <p>Under the statute permitting either the husband or wife to claim a homestead in community property while both are living, and vesting it in the survivor on the death of either, it is the spirit and intention of the law that a husband may, after his wife’s death, select a homestead from the community property for the benefit of himself and family.</p> <p>SAME-ATTAINMENT OF MAJOBITY BY CHILDKEN-EFFECT.</p> <p>Where a homestead in community property has been once lawfully claimed, it continued as a homestead, even though the children have attained their majority and left the parental roof.</p> <p>SAME-ABANDONMENT.</p> <p>The fact that a husband who had claimed a homestead in community property belonging to himself and his deceased wife had made conveyances thereof to his children did not constitute an abandonment of the homestead, so as to subject the land to sale for debts of the deceased wife’s interest in such community estate.</p>