STATE STATUTES & CODES

WASHINGTON STATUTES AND CODES

13.34 - Juvenile court act -- Dependency and termination of parent-child relationship.

• 13.34.010 - Short title.
• 13.34.020 - Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured -- Rights of child.
• 13.34.025 - Child dependency cases -- Coordination of services -- Remedial services.
• 13.34.030 - Definitions.
• 13.34.035 - Standard court forms -- Rules -- Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish -- Failure to use or follow -- Distribution.
• 13.34.040 - Petition to court to deal with dependent child -- Application of Indian child welfare act.
• 13.34.050 - Court order to take child into custody, when -- Hearing.
• 13.34.055 - Custody by law enforcement officer -- Release from liability.
• 13.34.060 - Shelter care -- Placement -- Custody -- Duties of parties.
• 13.34.062 - Shelter care -- Notice of custody and rights.
• 13.34.065 - Shelter care -- Hearing -- Recommendation as to further need -- Release (as amended by 2009 c 397).
• 13.34.067 - Shelter care -- Case conference -- Service agreement.
• 13.34.069 - Shelter care -- Order and authorization of health care and education records.
• 13.34.070 - Summons when petition filed -- Service procedure -- Hearing, when -- Contempt upon failure to appear -- Required notice regarding Indian children.
• 13.34.080 - Summons when petition filed -- Publication of notice.
• 13.34.090 - Rights under chapter proceedings.
• 13.34.092 - Rights under chapter proceedings -- Appointment of counsel -- Notice.
• 13.34.094 - Description of services provided to parents.
• 13.34.096 - Right to be heard -- Notice.
• 13.34.100 - Appointment of guardian ad litem -- Background information -- Rights -- Notification and inquiry -- Appointment of counsel for child -- Review.
• 13.34.102 - Guardian ad litem -- Training -- Registry -- Selection -- Substitution -- Exception.
• 13.34.105 - Guardian ad litem -- Duties -- Immunity -- Access to information.
• 13.34.107 - Guardian ad litem -- Ex parte communications -- Removal.
• 13.34.108 - Guardian ad litem -- Fees.
• 13.34.110 - Hearings -- Fact-finding and disposition -- Time and place, notice.
• 13.34.115 - Hearings -- Public excluded when in the best interests of the child--Notes and records -- Video recordings.
• 13.34.120 - Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing -- Contents -- Notice to parents.
• 13.34.125 - Voluntary adoption plan -- Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.
• 13.34.130 - Order of disposition for a dependent child, alternatives -- Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship -- Placement with relatives, foster family home, group care facility,
• 13.34.132 - Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship -- Requirements.
• 13.34.134 - Permanent placement of child.
• 13.34.136 - Permanency plan of care.
• 13.34.138 - Review hearings -- Findings -- Duties of parties involved -- In-home placement requirements -- Housing assistance.
• 13.34.141 - Entry, order of disposition -- Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child -- Notice.
• 13.34.142 - Current placement episode -- Calculation.
• 13.34.145 - Permanency planning hearing -- Purpose -- Time limits -- Goals -- Review hearing -- Petition for termination of parental rights -- Guardianship petition -- Agency responsibility to provide
• 13.34.150 - Modification of orders.
• 13.34.155 - Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody (as amended by 2009 c 520).
• 13.34.160 - Order of support for dependent child.
• 13.34.161 - Order of support for dependent child -- Noncompliance -- Enforcement of judgment.
• 13.34.165 - Civil contempt -- Grounds -- Motion -- Penalty -- Detention review hearing.
• 13.34.174 - Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation -- Treatment plan -- Breach of plan -- Reports.
• 13.34.176 - Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions -- Hearing -- Notice -- Modification of order.
• 13.34.180 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Petition -- Filing -- Allegations (as amended by 2009 c 477).
• 13.34.190 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Findings.
• 13.34.200 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Rights of parties when granted.
• 13.34.210 - Order terminating parent and child relationship -- Custody where no one has parental rights.
• 13.34.215 - Petition reinstating terminated parental rights -- Notice -- Achievement of permanency plan -- Effect of granting the petition -- Hearing -- Child support liability -- Retroactive applicat
• 13.34.232 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Order, contents -- Rights and duties of dependency guardian.
• 13.34.233 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Modification or termination of order -- Hearing -- Termination of guardianship.
• 13.34.234 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Dependency guardianship subsidies.
• 13.34.235 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Review hearing requirements not applicable -- Exception.
• 13.34.237 - Guardianship for dependent child -- Subject to dependency and termination of parent-child relationship provisions -- Exceptions -- Request to convert dependency guardianship to guardianshi
• 13.34.240 - Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.
• 13.34.245 - Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child -- Validation -- Withdrawal of consent -- Termination.
• 13.34.250 - Preference characteristics when placing Indian child in foster care home.
• 13.34.260 - Foster home placement -- Parental preferences -- Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
• 13.34.265 - Foster home placement -- Considerations.
• 13.34.270 - Child with developmental disability -- Out-of-home placement -- Permanency planning hearing.
• 13.34.300 - Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.
• 13.34.315 - Health care -- Evaluation and treatment.
• 13.34.320 - Inpatient mental health treatment -- When parental consent required -- Hearing.
• 13.34.330 - Inpatient mental health treatment -- Placement.
• 13.34.340 - Release of records -- Disclosure to treating physician.
• 13.34.350 - Dependent children -- Information sharing -- Guidelines.
• 13.34.360 - Transfer of newborn to qualified person -- Criminal liability -- Notification to child protective services -- Definitions.
• 13.34.370 - Evaluation of parties -- Selection of evaluators.
• 13.34.380 - Visitation policies and protocols -- Development -- Elements.
• 13.34.385 - Petition for visitation -- Relatives of dependent children -- Notice -- Modification of order -- Effect of granting the petition -- Retroactive application.
• 13.34.390 - Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.
• 13.34.400 - Child welfare proceedings -- Placement -- Documentation.
• 13.34.800 - Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants -- Model project.
• 13.34.801 - Rules -- Definition of "drug-affected infant."
• 13.34.802 - Rules -- Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."
• 13.34.820 - Permanency for dependent children -- Annual report.
• 13.34.830 - Child protection and child welfare -- Racial disproportionality -- Evaluation -- Report.
• 13.34.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.

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