(1) Any person may be adopted, regardless of his or her age or residence.
(2) Any person who is legally competent and who is eighteen years of age or older may be an adoptive parent.
RCW 26.33.140
Who may adopt or be adopted.
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case McKinney v. State (1998)
Most recently applied in In Re The Adoption Of: M.j.w. (April 2019)
1984 c 155 s 14.
How often courts cite this section
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.