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Relocating with a child: sixty days' notice, thirty days to object

The Child Relocation Act sequences the move: the parent with majority residential time gives SIXTY DAYS' notice (or within five days of learning, when timely knowledge was impossible); an objection is due within THIRTY DAYS of receipt, by petition for modification pursuant to relocation; and the intended relocation carries a rebuttable presumption that it will be PERMITTED — rebutted only by showing detriment outweighing benefit on eleven statutory factors.

The honesty note

Missing the objection window commonly lets the relocation proceed; the eleven-factor weighing is judgment, not arithmetic — timelines here are the law, outcomes are counsel's territory.

Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus

RCW 26.09.430 · #a791fbc9RCW 26.09.440 · #52fd869dRCW 26.09.480 · #362db5e0RCW 26.09.520 · #80c39d5b

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