Petitions—Place of filing—Consolidation of petitions and hearings.
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State Ex Rel. Torres v. Mason (1993)
Most recently applied in 123 Wash. App. 564 - In re the Welfare of J.N. (August 2004)
1984 c 155 s 3.
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.
(1) A petition under this chapter may be filed in the superior court of the county in which the petitioner is a resident or of the county in which the adoptee is domiciled.
(2) A petition under this chapter may be consolidated with any other petition under this chapter. A hearing under this chapter may be consolidated with any other hearing under this chapter.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.