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.
DATE ENTERED THE UNION ; 1 : Delaware: December 7, 1787 : 2 : Pennsylvania: December 12, 1787 : 3 : New Jersey: December 18, 1787 : 4 : Georgia: January 2, 1788 : 5 : Connecticut: January 9, 1788 : 6 : Massachusetts: February 6, 1788 : 7 : Maryland: April 28, 1788 : 8 : South Carolina: May 23, 1788 : 9 : New Hampshire: June 21, 1788 : 10 : Virginia: June 25, 1788 : 11 : New York: July 26, 1788 : 12 : North Carolina