Can I just send notice of a upcoming court date plus the filed court papers to the other party by certified mail?

The court has jurisdiction because either you or your ex served a summons and a petition for dissolution. I can't tell which of you is the...

Well, it is time to stop taking legal advice from your wife, clearly. In the first place, your marriage counselor has an irreconcileable conflict...

Three, including the day it was supposed to go out. You have to go check in with Superior Court Administration on the third floor and either stick...

I have a anti-harassment court hearing coming up soon.My question is; can either parties have or bring witnesses to this court

In Pierce County it is typical that there are no witnesses allowed to testify at the return hearing, just the parties. If this is DV, there are no...

Denied Parenting Plan

It isn't up to the father and you can get into court before May. It is up to a judge or a commissioner to determine what the parenting plan should...

Is a landlord responsible for steps installed prior to his ownership of a manufactured home?

If you are being sued, please go get a lawyer. You might want to discuss this with Walt Olson of the Olson Law Firm. They are in Kent. They are...

If a parenting plan requires the parent to give notice of eviction

Any dissolution orders entered in WA contain a page or so of warnings about the Child Relocation Act. Its essence is that if the primary...

At what point can we petition the court to change the visitation schedule?

You have what is called a Possinger plan, named after a case from earlier this decade where one parent was required to meet requirements before the...

My ex-wife is trying to force contact with our 16 year old son to include inducing counselling; both of which he does not want.

The caselaw and the statutes require that for a modification of a parenting plan to happen, the moving party (here, your ex) has to establish that...

A adult male neighbor who has been agressive toward my child age 12 and other neighborhood kids attacked and assaulted him fri

You can ask the district court for an anti harassment order for your son. You can look for the forms here: http://www.courts.wa.gov on the "court...