Statutory terminable individual
Property classification agreement
I UNDERSTAND THAT:
1. THIS TERMINATION TAKES EFFECT 30 DAYS AFTER MY SPOUSE IS NOTIFIED OF THE TERMINATION, AS PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 766.589 (4) OF THE WISCONSIN STATUTES.
2. THIS TERMINATION IS PROSPECTIVE; IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY ACQUIRED BEFORE THE TERMINATION BECOMES EFFECTIVE. PROPERTY ACQUIRED AFTER THE TERMINATION BECOMES EFFECTIVE IS CLASSIFIED AS PROVIDED UNDER THE MARITAL PROPERTY LAW.
3. IN GENERAL, THIS TERMINATION IS NOT BINDING ON CREDITORS UNLESS THEY ARE PROVIDED A COPY OF THE TERMINATION BEFORE CREDIT IS EXTENDED.
The undersigned terminates the statutory terminable individual property classification agreement entered into by me and my spouse on .... (date last spouse signed the agreement) under section 766.589 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
Signature: ....
Date: ....
Print Name Here: ....
Residence Address: ....
Schedule "a"
Financial Disclosure
The following general categories of assets and liabilities are not all inclusive and if other assets or liabilities exist they should be listed. Assets should be listed according to which spouse has title (including assets owned by a spouse or the spouses with one or more third parties) and at their approximate market value.
Husband Wife Both Names
I. Assets:
A. Real estate (gross value)
B. Stocks, bonds and mutual funds
C. Accounts at and certificates and
other instruments issued by
financial institutions
D. Mortgages, land contracts,
promissory notes and cash
E. Partnership interests
EL. Limited liability company interests
F. Trust interests
G. Livestock, farm products, crops
H. Automobiles and other vehicles
I. Jewelry and personal effects
J. Household furnishings
K. Life insurance and annuities:
1. Face value
2. Cash surrender value
L. Retirement benefits (include value):
1. Pension plans
2. Profit sharing plans
3. HR-10 KEOGH plans
4. IRAs
5. Deferred compensation plans
M. Other assets not listed elsewhere
II. Obligations (total outstanding balance):
A. Mortgages and liens
B. Credit cards
C. Other obligations to financial
institutions
D. Alimony, maintenance and child
support (per month)
E. Other obligations (such as other obligations
to individuals guarantees,
contingent liabilities)
III. Annual compensation for services:
(for example, wages and income from
self-employment; also include social security,
disability and similar income here)
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766.59
766.59
Unilateral statement; income from nonmarital property. 766.59(1)(1) A spouse may unilaterally execute a written statement which classifies the income attributable to all or certain of that spouse's property other than marital property as individual property.
766.59(2)(a)(a) The statement is executed when signed by the executing spouse and acknowledged by a notary. If executed before January 1, 1986, the statement is effective on January 1, 1986, or at a later time if provided otherwise in the statement. If executed on or after January 1, 1986, the statement is effective when executed or at a later time if provided otherwise in the statement.
766.59(2)(b)
(b) Within 5 days after the statement is signed, the executing spouse shall notify the other spouse of the statement's contents by personally delivering a copy to the other spouse or by sending a copy by certified mail to the other spouse's last-known address. Failure to give notice is a breach of the duty of good faith imposed by
s. 766.15.
766.59(2)(c)
(c) The executing spouse may record the statement in the county register of deeds office under
s. 59.43 (1) (r).
766.59(3)
(3) Any income of the property designated in the statement which accrues on or after the date the statement becomes effective and before a revocation under
sub. (4) is individual property. However, a statement only affects income accrued during the marriage during which the statement was executed.
766.59(4)
(4) A statement may be revoked in writing by the executing spouse. The revoking spouse shall notify the other spouse of the revocation by personally delivering a copy to the other spouse or by sending a copy by certified mail to the other spouse's last-known address. The revoking spouse may record the revocation in the county register of deeds office under
s. 59.43 (1) (r).
766.59(5)
(5) With respect to its effect on 3rd parties, a statement or a revocation shall be treated as if it were a marital property agreement.
766.59(6)
(6) A person intending to marry may execute a statement under this section as if married. A statement executed by a person intending to marry is effective upon the marriage or at a later time if so provided in the statement. Within 5 days after the statement is executed, the person executing the statement shall notify the person whom he or she intends to marry or has married of the statement's contents by personally delivering a copy of the statement to that person or by sending a copy by certified mail to that person's address. Failure to give notice is a breach of the duty of good faith imposed by
s. 766.15.
766.60
766.60
Optional forms of holding property; survivorship ownership. 766.60(1)(1) Spouses may hold marital property in a form that designates the holders of it by the words "(name of one spouse) or (name of other spouse) as marital property".
766.60(2)
(2) Spouses may hold marital property in a form that designates the holder of it by the words "(name of one spouse) and (name of other spouse) as marital property".
766.60(3)
(3) A spouse may hold individual property in a form that designates the holder of it by the words "(name of spouse) as individual property".
766.60(4)(a)(a) Spouses may hold property in any other form permitted by law, including but not limited to a concurrent form or a form that provides survivorship ownership. Except as provided in
par. (b) and except with respect to any remedy a spouse has under this chapter, whether a tenancy in common or joint tenancy was created before or after the determination date, to the extent the incidents of the tenancy in common or joint tenancy conflict with or differ from the incidents of property classification under this chapter, the incidents of the tenancy in common or of the joint tenancy, including the incident of survivorship, control.
766.60(4)(b)1.a.
a. If a document of title, instrument of transfer or bill of sale expresses an intent to establish a joint tenancy exclusively between spouses after the determination date, the property is survivorship marital property under
sub. (5).
766.60(4)(b)1.b.
b. If a document of title, instrument of transfer or bill of sale expresses an intent to establish a tenancy in common exclusively between spouses after the determination date, the property is marital property.
766.60(4)(b)2.
2. A joint tenancy or tenancy in common exclusively between spouses which is given to the spouses by a 3rd party after the determination date is survivorship marital property or marital property, respectively, unless the donor provides otherwise.
766.60(5)(a)(a) If the words "survivorship marital property" are used instead of the words "marital property" in the form described in
sub. (1) or
(2), the marital property so held is survivorship marital property. On the death of a spouse, the ownership rights of that spouse in the property vest solely in the surviving spouse by nontestamentary disposition at death. The first deceased spouse may not dispose at death of any interest in survivorship marital property. Holding marital property in a form described in
sub. (1) or
(2) does not alone establish survivorship ownership between the spouses with respect to the property held.
766.60(5)(b)
(b) A real estate mortgage, a security interest under
ch. 409 or a lien under
s. 71.91 (5) (b) or
ch. 49 or
779 on or against the interest of a spouse in survivorship marital property does not defeat the right of survivorship on the death of the spouse. The surviving spouse takes the interest of the deceased spouse subject to the mortgage, security interest or lien.
766.60(5)(c)
(c) A judgment lien on the interest of a spouse in survivorship marital property does not defeat the right of survivorship on the death of the spouse. If execution on the judgment lien was issued before the spouse's death the surviving spouse takes the interest of the deceased spouse subject to the lien. If execution on the judgment lien was not issued before the spouse's death, the surviving spouse takes the interest of the deceased spouse free of the judgment lien, unless the judgment lien is on the interests of both spouses in the survivorship marital property and all of the property of the spouses was available under
s. 766.55 to satisfy the obligation for which the judgment was rendered.
766.60 Note
NOTE: 1991 Wis. Act 301, which affected this section, contains extensive legislative council notes.
766.60 Annotation
When land contract sellers who owned the property as survivorship marital property, received the property back from the buyers by quit claim deed in lieu of foreclosure, the sellers' ownership interest could not be changed by the deed to other than survivorship property. Wonka v. Estate of Bierbrauer, 2001 WI App 274,
249 Wis. 2d 23,
637 N.W.2d 92,
01-0184.
766.605
766.605
Classification of homestead. A homestead acquired after the determination date which, when acquired, is held exclusively between spouses with no 3rd party is survivorship marital property if no intent to the contrary is expressed on the instrument of transfer or in a marital property agreement. A homestead may be reclassified under
s. 766.31 (10).
766.605 Note
NOTE: 1991 Wis. Act 301, which affected this section, contains extensive legislative council notes.
