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The GR 22 trap: financial documents must be filed SEALED
Washington family files are public — but GR 22 keeps specific things out of the public file when filed correctly: financial source documents (paystubs, tax returns, bank statements) ride a SEALED cover sheet, and personal identifiers ride the confidential-information form. File them unsealed and they are exposed; the pattern forms exist for exactly this.
The honesty note
Sealing here is form-driven, not automatic — the sealed cover sheet and confidential-information companion are live numbered pattern forms; the clerk's office and the courthouse facilitator can confirm your county's handling.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Do it with the tools
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.