Chapter

JUVENILE COURT ACT—DEPENDENCY AND TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP

RCW 13.34.010— Short title.
RCW 13.34.020— Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured—Rights of child.
RCW 13.34.025— Child dependency cases—Coordination of services—Remedial services.
RCW 13.34.030— Definitions.
RCW 13.34.035— Standard court forms—Rules—Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish—Failure to use or follow—Distribution.
RCW 13.34.040— Petition to court to deal with dependent child—Application of federal Indian child welfare act.
RCW 13.34.045— Educational liaison—Identification.
RCW 13.34.046— Educational liaison—Responsibilities—Background checks.
RCW 13.34.050— Court order to take child into custody, when—Hearing.
RCW 13.34.055— Custody by law enforcement officer—Release from liability.
RCW 13.34.060— Shelter care—Placement—Custody—Duties of parties.
RCW 13.34.062— Shelter care—Notice of custody and rights.
RCW 13.34.065— Shelter care—Hearing—Recommendation as to further need—Release.
RCW 13.34.067— Shelter care—Case conference—Service agreement.
RCW 13.34.069— Shelter care—Order and authorization of health care and education records.
RCW 13.34.070— Summons when petition filed—Service procedure—Hearing, when—Contempt upon failure to appear—Required notice regarding Indian children.
RCW 13.34.080— Summons when petition filed—Publication of notice. (Effective until January 31, 2026.)
RCW 13.34.090— Rights under chapter proceedings.
RCW 13.34.092— Rights under chapter proceedings—Appointment of counsel—Notice.
RCW 13.34.094— Description of services provided to parents.
RCW 13.34.096— Right to be heard—Notice.
RCW 13.34.100— Appointment of guardian ad litem—Background information—Rights—Notification and inquiry—Review and removal.
RCW 13.34.102— Guardian ad litem—Training—Registry—Selection—Substitution—Exception.
RCW 13.34.105— Guardian ad litem—Duties—Immunity—Access to information.
RCW 13.34.107— Guardian ad litem—Ex parte communications—Removal.
RCW 13.34.108— Guardian ad litem—Fees.
RCW 13.34.110— Hearings—Fact-finding and disposition—Time and place, notice.
RCW 13.34.115— Hearings—Public excluded when in the best interests of the child—Notes and records—Video recordings.
RCW 13.34.120— Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing—Contents—Notice to parents.
RCW 13.34.125— Voluntary adoption plan—Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.
RCW 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, qualified residential treatment program, or other suitable persons—Placement of an Indian child in out-of-home care—Contact with siblings.
RCW 13.34.132— Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship—Requirements.
RCW 13.34.134— Permanent placement of child.
RCW 13.34.136— Permanency plan of care.
RCW 13.34.138— Review hearings—Findings—Duties of parties involved—In-home placement requirements—Housing assistance.
RCW 13.34.141— Entry, order of disposition—Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child—Notice.
RCW 13.34.142— Current placement episode—Calculation.
RCW 13.34.145— Permanency planning hearing—Purpose—Time limits—Goals—Review hearing—Petition for termination of parental rights—Guardianship petition—Agency responsibility to provide services to parents—Due process rights.
RCW 13.34.147— Case review panel—Creation—Duties.
RCW 13.34.150— Modification of orders.
RCW 13.34.155— Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody—Establishment or modification of parenting plan.
RCW 13.34.160— Order of support for dependent child.
RCW 13.34.161— Order of support for dependent child—Noncompliance—Enforcement of judgment.
RCW 13.34.165— Civil contempt—Grounds—Motion—Penalty—Detention review hearing.
RCW 13.34.174— Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation—Treatment plan—Breach of plan—Reports.
RCW 13.34.176— Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions—Hearing—Notice—Modification of order.
RCW 13.34.180— Order terminating parent and child relationship—Petition—Filing—Allegations.
RCW 13.34.190— Order terminating parent and child relationship—Findings.
RCW 13.34.200— Order terminating parent and child relationship—Rights of parties when granted.
RCW 13.34.210— Order terminating parent and child relationship—Custody where no one has parental rights.
RCW 13.34.212— Court-appointed attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding.
RCW 13.34.215— Petition reinstating terminated parental rights—Notice—Achievement of permanency plan—Effect of granting the petition—Hearing—Child support liability—Retroactive application—Limitation on liability.
RCW 13.34.232— Guardianship for dependent child—Order, contents—Rights and duties of dependency guardian.
RCW 13.34.233— Guardianship for dependent child—Modification or termination of order—Hearing—Termination of guardianship.
RCW 13.34.234— Guardianship for dependent child—Dependency guardianship subsidies.
RCW 13.34.235— Guardianship for dependent child—Review hearing requirements not applicable—Exception.
RCW 13.34.237— Guardianship for dependent child—Subject to dependency and termination of parent-child relationship provisions—Exceptions—Request to convert dependency guardianship to guardianship—Dismissal of dependency.
RCW 13.34.240— Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.
RCW 13.34.245— Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child—Validation—Withdrawal of consent—Termination.
RCW 13.34.260— Foster home placement—Parental preferences—Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
RCW 13.34.265— Foster home placement—Considerations.
RCW 13.34.267— Extended foster care services—Maintenance of dependency proceeding—Placement, care of youth—Appointment of counsel—Case plan.
RCW 13.34.268— Extended foster care services—Voluntary placement agreement—Decline—Petition for dependency.
RCW 13.34.270— Child with developmental disability—Out-of-home placement—Permanency planning hearing.
RCW 13.34.300— Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.
RCW 13.34.315— Health care—Evaluation and treatment.
RCW 13.34.320— Inpatient mental health treatment—When parental consent required—Hearing.
RCW 13.34.330— Inpatient mental health treatment—Placement.
RCW 13.34.340— Release of records—Disclosure to treating physician.
RCW 13.34.350— Dependent children—Information sharing—Guidelines.
RCW 13.34.360— Transfer of newborn to qualified person—Criminal liability—Notification to child protective services—Definitions.
RCW 13.34.370— Evaluation of parties—Selection of evaluators.
RCW 13.34.380— Visitation policies and protocols—Development—Elements.
RCW 13.34.385— Petition for visitation—Relatives of dependent children—Notice—Modification of order—Effect of granting the petition—Retroactive application.
RCW 13.34.390— Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.
RCW 13.34.400— Child welfare proceedings—Placement—Documentation.
RCW 13.34.410— Psychosexual evaluation.
RCW 13.34.420— Qualified residential treatment program—Requirements.
RCW 13.34.425— Qualified residential treatment program—Placement—Hearing.
RCW 13.34.430— Social study—Required information.
RCW 13.34.435— Washington state center for court research—Attorney-client privilege.
RCW 13.34.440— Federal waivers.
RCW 13.34.800— Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants—Model project.
RCW 13.34.801— Rules—Definition of "drug-affected infant."
RCW 13.34.802— Rules—Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."
RCW 13.34.820— Permanency for dependent children—Annual report.
RCW 13.34.830— Child protection and child welfare—Racial disproportionality—Evaluation—Report.
RCW 13.34.900— Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
RCW 13.34.901— Construction—Prevention services.