Doyle v. Hicks

Sweeney, A.C.J.

Jack R. Hicks bought a house in Spokane, Washington, in 1970. In 1976, he married Fer-nanda Arenas Chacon. Together they moved to Colombia, South America, in the late 1970s, where they remained until sometime in the late 1980s.

On May 23, 1977, Mr. Hicks and Ms. Chacon signed a community property agreement in which they agreed that all of their property was community property. That same day, Mr. Hicks quitclaimed the Spokane property to himself and his wife as community property. The deed, however, was not recorded. On May 24, they signed a deed of trust to secure a loan from…