Married Filing Separately. If your husband does not want to share the responsibility of a joint return, he can choose to file separately without telling you. The status of married filing separately can benefit him if he expects to receive a refund and thinks that you will owe tax.
Washington became the forty-second state of the United States of America on November 11, 1889. After a hiatus of thirteen years when no new states were admitted to the Union, the United States Congress passed an act enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood.
Washington became a state in 1889. It had been yielded to the United States by Spain in 1819, although the territory was also claimed by the British for years after. The first settlers in the state were led by George Washington Bush, an African American who was avoiding Oregon's racist laws.