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Dissolution in Washington: no waiting period, no fault, a shall-enter rule
Washington opens the courthouse door the day residency (or military stationing) is real — no months-of-residency wait exists. The only ground is that the marriage is irretrievably broken, and if the other spouse joins the petition or does not deny the breakdown, entry of the decree is MANDATORY once the ninety-day floor passes. Denial slows the path through the statute's reconciliation branches; it does not create a fault trial.
The honesty note
Legal separation rides the same section for those who need the alternative — and venue being open is not strategy; where the parties, children, and property actually are still shapes the sensible forum.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
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Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county practice defer to your superior court's clerk-maintained local rules (GR 7(d)) and the courthouse facilitator — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.