Washington family law
The community-property state with the ninety-day dissolution clock — the statutes' own words below, loaded verbatim. This lane is the INVERSE of a petition generator: nothing here drafts a family-law document.
Dissolution runs on a ninety-day clock
A petition alleging the marriage or domestic partnership is IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN ripens when ninety days have elapsed since filing AND since service (or first publication) — the statute's own waiting period, computed from both events.
RCW 26.09.030
Washington is a community-property state
Property acquired after marriage or domestic-partnership registration is community property, and either spouse or partner acting alone may manage and control it, with the statute's own exceptions — the inverse of the equitable-distribution states.
RCW 26.16.030
The division reaches BOTH pools
At dissolution the court disposes of property and liabilities, COMMUNITY OR SEPARATE, as appears just and equitable after the statute's factors — the nature and extent of each pool, the duration of the marriage, and the parties' circumstances. Which outcome is just is the court's judgment, never a formula.
RCW 26.09.080
Maintenance is discretionary and factored
The court MAY grant maintenance for either spouse or partner — in amounts and for periods the statute's factors govern. The statute contains no formula, and none is offered here.
RCW 26.09.090
Child support runs without regard to misconduct
The court SHALL order parents owing a duty of support to pay per the statute — after all relevant factors but WITHOUT REGARD TO MISCONDUCT. The economic table and worksheets are the legislature's machinery; applying them to a family is judgment.
RCW 26.09.100
Parenting plans are pure legal judgment
The best interests of the child is the standard (RCW 26.09.002), the plan's dispute-resolution and residential provisions run on the statute's criteria, and RCW 26.09.191's limiting factors MAY — and in some situations MUST — restrict provisions to protect a child. Nothing on this platform drafts any of it.
RCW 26.09.002; RCW 26.09.187; RCW 26.09.191
The protection-order lane — safety first
Chapter 7.105 consolidates the protection-order petitions (domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, harassment, vulnerable adult, extreme risk). The courts publish official forms, advocates exist in every county, and GR 24(b)(6) expressly permits assistance in this lane as the chapter authorizes. In danger now: 911 first, always.
RCW 7.105.100; GR 24(b)(6)
Routed — and why, honestly
Everything above is information about what the statutes provide. Petitions, parenting plans, support worksheets, and settlement terms are drafting and judgment — a licensed Washington attorney's work (and CR 11(b) expressly contemplates limited-scope drafting help for self-represented people). This platform shows the law; it does not prepare family-law documents.
The official forms (free): courts.wa.gov/forms → · Finding a Washington attorney →
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