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 State became part of the USA without dispute in 1846 (before that, Britain and the USA with some Spanish arguments disputed the area), 56 years after the founding of Washington DC and became a state in 1889, 99 years after the founding of Washington DC.