Soltero v. Wimer

*430¶1 — Washington courts have long recognized that community-like1 property jointly owned by partners in a meretricious relationship is subject to a just and equitable distribution when the relationship ends. This distribution resembles in many ways the distribution of community property at the termination of a marriage.

Chambers, J.

¶2 Unlike the distribution in a divorce, however, the separate property of the parties in a dissolving meretricious relationship is not subject to distribution. In this case, after a full trial, the judge below identified no community-like property. Nonetheless, he…