Marsh v. Fisher

Citations

• 69 Wash. 570
• 125 P. 951
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 954

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife—Community Property—Personal Earnings of Wife. Where the wife’s personal earnings are community property, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 570, exempting them from attachment or execution upon any liability against the husband, does not exempt them from execution upon a judgment against the community.</p> <p>Same. A wife’s personal earnings are her separate property only where she is living separate and apart from her husband, in the absence of any agreement between husband and wife with respect thereto.</p> <p>Same—Agreement as to Personal Earnings of Wife. An agreement between husband and wife that the earnings of each while living together shall be the separate property of each cannot affect existing creditors of the community.</p>