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Parenting plans, not custody: Washington's own vocabulary

Washington replaced custody vocabulary in 1987: the instrument is a PARENTING PLAN with three mandatory components — a residential schedule, an allocation of decision-making authority, and a dispute-resolution process. The criteria weigh each parent's relationship with the child, and the mandatory pattern forms carry the structure.

The honesty note

Residential-schedule design is family-specific drafting on the pattern forms — this platform organizes the statutory structure and prepares no Washington documents pending the counsel opinion the drafting page states.

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RCW 26.09.181 · #03f7691dRCW 26.09.184 · #eec049d9RCW 26.09.187 · #5a362866

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.