Legal Opinion
Seeley v. Godfrey
Washington Supreme Court
Decided September 28, 1961No. 35744PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMallery, J.
John Frank Wittman, the decedent, and Sadie Sharp Wittman were married in 1925 and were husband and wife at the time of John’s death on January 9, 1959. No children were born of the marriage.
On July 15, 1949, they entered into a community property agreement, which provided, inter alia:
“All property, whether real or personal, now or hereafter standing in the name of either party hereto, or in the names of both, or in which either or both of us now or hereafter shall have any interest, is hereby constituted and shall be treated for all purposes as the community property of both of us, and upon…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re the Estate of BrownWashington Supreme Court · 1947
- Morango v. PhillipsWashington Supreme Court · 1949
3Cited by1 opinion
- In Re Wittman's EstateWashington Supreme Court · 1961