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2020 Revised Code of Washington
Title 13 - Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Offenders
Chapter 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 federal Indian child welfare act.
- 13.34.045 Educational liaison—Identification.
- 13.34.046 Educational liaison—Responsibilities—Background checks.
- 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.
- 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 attorney for child—Review and removal.
- 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, qualified residential treatment program, or other suitable persons—Placement of an Indian child in out-of-home care—Contact with siblings.
- 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 services to parents—Due process rights.
- 13.34.147 Case review panel—Creation—Duties.
- 13.34.150 Modification of orders.
- 13.34.155 Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody—Establishment or modification of parenting plan.
- 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.
- 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 application—Limitation on liability.
- 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 guardianship—Dismissal of dependency.
- 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.
- 13.34.260 Foster home placement—Parental preferences—Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
- 13.34.265 Foster home placement—Considerations.
- 13.34.267 Extended foster care services—Maintenance of dependency proceeding—Placement, care of youth—Appointment of counsel—Case plan.
- 13.34.268 Extended foster care services—Voluntary placement agreement—Decline—Petition for dependency.
- 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.
- 13.34.410 Psychosexual evaluation.
- 13.34.420 Qualified residential treatment program—Requirements.
- 13.34.425 Qualified residential treatment program—Placement—Hearing.
- 13.34.430 Social study—Required information.
- 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.
- 13.34.901 Construction—Prevention services.
NOTES:
Family preservation services: Chapter 74.14C RCW.
Foster placement prevention: Chapter 74.14C RCW.
Implementation of chapters 13.32A and 13.34 RCW: RCW 74.13.036.
Information about rights: RCW 26.44.100 through 26.44.120.
Juvenile may be both dependent and an offender: RCW 13.04.300.
Out-of-home care—Social study required: RCW 74.13.065.
Out-of-home placement: RCW 13.32A.140 through 13.32A.190.
Procedures for families in conflict, interstate compact to apply, when: RCW 13.32A.110.
Therapeutic family home program for youth in custody under chapter 13.34 RCW: RCW 74.13.170.
Transitional living programs for youth in the process of being emancipated: RCW 74.13.037.
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