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.
A boundary acceptable to both north and south was fixed in 1887 and two years later Congress enacted enabling legislation that set the path for the admission of the Dakotas, Washington and Montana. North Dakota became the 39th state to join the Union and South Dakota the 40th, both on November 2, 1889.