The legislature finds that there is an urgent need for vigorous enforcement of child support and maintenance obligations, and that stronger and more efficient statutory remedies need to be established to supplement and complement the remedies provided in chapters 26.09, 26.21A, 26.26A, 26.26B, 74.20, and 74.20A RCW.
RCW 26.18.010
Legislative findings.
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 85 Wash. App. 311 - In Re the Marriage of Capetillo (1997)
Most recently applied in In re the Marriage of Zandi (February 2017)
2019 c 46 s 5024; 2008 c 6 s 1026; 1993 c 426 s 1; 1984 c 260 s 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.