(a) A married person owning any separate personal property may make a schedule of the property and file it in the recorder's office of the county where he or she then lives.
(b) The schedule so filed, or a duly certified copy thereof, under the hand and seal of the recorder, shall be prima facie evidence, in all courts and places, that the property mentioned in the schedule, together with the issues and increases of the property, is, and was at the date of the making of the schedule, the separate property of the married person.