Non-Parental (Third Party) Custody; Grandparents Rights
Non-parental custody actions are brought when third parties (people other than the actual parents) seek custody of minor children where either both parents are unfit, or where the children have been voluntarily placed with a third party by the parents. Before a non-parental custody case can proceed, a party seeking nonparental custody is required to establish "adequate cause" for the petition. This is often referred to as a "threshold requirement". On January 19, 2017, the
Post-Secondary Educational Support
In Washington State, postsecondary educational support can be ordered to require parents to pay for college for their children. In general, child support obligations end when a child turns eighteen or graduates from high school (whichever occurs later), unless postsecondary educational support is awarded. When determining whether postsecondary support is required of the parents, the first thing to do is to review the final child support order. If the Court has already estab
