Duxbury v. Duxbury

¶1 Sojourner T. Duxbury1 appeals the Pierce County Superior Court’s order concluding that her deceased father’s (Mark Eugene Duxbury) federal “ ‘qui tam action’ ”2 under the False Claims Act (FCA)3 and any future proceeds4 from it are community property, which will *156pass entirely to her stepmother, Chinyelu Duxbury, under Washington’s intestacy statute; Sojourner also appeals the superior court’s denial of her motion to reconsider this decision. Sojourner argues that the superior court erred in concluding that her father’s qui tarn action is community property because (1) he acquired a…