{"id":5682,"date":"2016-11-04T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:09:03","slug":"statutory-inheritance-separate-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/statutory-inheritance-separate-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Statutory Inheritance of Separate Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">By Matthew P. Stucki<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">A couple of concepts that are often confusing for many clients deal with: 1) the difference between separate property and community property, and 2) how separate property of an individual is distributed upon his or her death if he or she does not have a Last Will and Testament.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">Under Idaho Law, property that is owned by the wife prior to marriage and property that is acquired after marriage by way of gift, bequest, devise or descent, shall remain the sole and separate property of the wife. (vice versa for the husband). See Idaho Code \u00a7 32-903. However, to maintain the separate nature of the property, it is important that the wife does not mix her separate property with her husbands. For example, if a woman has $20,000 of separate property in an account before marriage and after marriage combines her account with her husband\u2019s account, with both her and her husband thereafter using the account as a common account, then the property that the woman initial had is likely to have lost its classification as separate property of the wife.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/statutory-inheritance-separate-property\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Statutory Inheritance of Separate Property\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew P. Stucki A couple of concepts that are often confusing for many clients deal with: 1) the difference between separate property and community property, and 2) how separate property of an individual is distributed upon his or her death if he or she does not have a Last Will and Testament. Under Idaho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Statutory Inheritance of Separate Property|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have any questions regarding how to ensure property pass to your heirs according to your wishes and desires, call us at 877.232.6101.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/statutory-inheritance-separate-property\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" 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