Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

Re: Dissolution & house transfer

The parties can do an allocation of the property and associated in debt in the the decree and then do a quit claim of interest in the property to the other spouse. This does not release the party giving up the property of the obligation under the mortgage (that requires doing a deal with the mortgage company, i.e. refinance). I advocate to my clients that if they are giving up their interest in the property that they get a fixed date for a refinance and consider not quit claiming until the the refinance is in process and their quit claim deed becomes part of the escrow in the refinance.