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[wa] Divorce: Community Debt, Separate Debt?

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Location: Spokane, WA, USA.

My ex and I went to the court house together and I filed for an uncontested divorce at the beginning of the year.

We have a prenup that basically says anything we brought into the marriage and acquired during stays with said person. We don't have any property together. I filed the prenup with the court.

I moved out a couple of weeks later. We rent.

On the divorce paperwork we put down that the marital community ended mid last year.

At that time we did not have any debt together or separately.

In fact we never had accounts together and we split all bills evenly. Everything else that was needed was bought separately.

This year we owe a thousand or so in taxes and signed a contact saying that we each will pay exactly half. It also said that it will be paid onto his credit card and I will pay by x amount of time. I filed this with the court.

It will be paid by that time. So his debt was acquired this month.

I also have some debt that acquired this month.

Both our debts will be paid off before I file to finalize the divorce after the 90 days period.

I went to speak to the court house facilitator to make sure that everything was filled out correctly. She said that I need to file all our current debts from beginning to end of marriage under the community debt section. She said that end of marriage meant when I turned in the final divorce paperwork after the 90 days.

Neither or us want to make the other person pay for the other person's debt (except for the taxes which I will pay off my half before the final divorce paperwork will be filed).

Do we have to fill out our current community from start of marriage to after the 90 days when I file for finalized divorce? Or did the community debt end at the date we wrote down in the initial divorce paperwork? Or did it possibly end when I moved out? Do we have to fill it in at all since it will be gone by the time it's filed?

Do we have to file out our separate debt even though it will be gone by the time the divorce ir filed?

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