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Chapter 13.34 RCW

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

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Sections

HTMLPDF 13.34.010Short title.
HTMLPDF 13.34.020Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured—Rights of child.
HTMLPDF 13.34.025Child dependency cases—Coordination of services—Remedial services.
HTMLPDF 13.34.030Definitions.
HTMLPDF 13.34.035Standard court forms—Rules—Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish—Failure to use or follow—Distribution.
HTMLPDF 13.34.040Petition to court to deal with dependent child—Application of federal Indian child welfare act.
HTMLPDF 13.34.045Educational liaison—Identification.
HTMLPDF 13.34.046Educational liaison—Responsibilities—Background checks.
HTMLPDF 13.34.050Court order to take child into custody, when—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.34.055Custody by law enforcement officer—Release from liability.
HTMLPDF 13.34.060Shelter care—Placement—Custody—Duties of parties.
HTMLPDF 13.34.062Shelter care—Notice of custody and rights.
HTMLPDF 13.34.065Shelter care—Hearing—Recommendation as to further need—Release.
HTMLPDF 13.34.067Shelter care—Case conference—Service agreement.
HTMLPDF 13.34.069Shelter care—Order and authorization of health care and education records.
HTMLPDF 13.34.070Summons when petition filed—Service procedure—Hearing, when—Contempt upon failure to appear—Required notice regarding Indian children.
HTMLPDF 13.34.080Summons when petition filed—Publication of notice.
HTMLPDF 13.34.090Rights under chapter proceedings.
HTMLPDF 13.34.092Rights under chapter proceedings—Appointment of counsel—Notice.
HTMLPDF 13.34.094Description of services provided to parents.
HTMLPDF 13.34.096Right to be heard—Notice.
HTMLPDF 13.34.100Appointment of guardian ad litem—Background information—Rights—Notification and inquiry—Review and removal.
HTMLPDF 13.34.102Guardian ad litem—Training—Registry—Selection—Substitution—Exception.
HTMLPDF 13.34.105Guardian ad litem—Duties—Immunity—Access to information.
HTMLPDF 13.34.107Guardian ad litem—Ex parte communications—Removal.
HTMLPDF 13.34.108Guardian ad litem—Fees.
HTMLPDF 13.34.110Hearings—Fact-finding and disposition—Time and place, notice.
HTMLPDF 13.34.115Hearings—Public excluded when in the best interests of the child—Notes and records—Video recordings.
HTMLPDF 13.34.120Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing—Contents—Notice to parents.
HTMLPDF 13.34.125Voluntary adoption plan—Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.
HTMLPDF 13.34.130Order 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.
HTMLPDF 13.34.132Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 13.34.134Permanent placement of child.
HTMLPDF 13.34.136Permanency plan of care.
HTMLPDF 13.34.138Review hearings—Findings—Duties of parties involved—In-home placement requirements—Housing assistance.
HTMLPDF 13.34.141Entry, order of disposition—Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child—Notice.
HTMLPDF 13.34.142Current placement episode—Calculation.
HTMLPDF 13.34.145Permanency 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.
HTMLPDF 13.34.147Case review panel—Creation—Duties.
HTMLPDF 13.34.150Modification of orders.
HTMLPDF 13.34.155Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody—Establishment or modification of parenting plan.
HTMLPDF 13.34.160Order of support for dependent child.
HTMLPDF 13.34.161Order of support for dependent child—Noncompliance—Enforcement of judgment.
HTMLPDF 13.34.165Civil contempt—Grounds—Motion—Penalty—Detention review hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.34.174Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation—Treatment plan—Breach of plan—Reports.
HTMLPDF 13.34.176Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions—Hearing—Notice—Modification of order.
HTMLPDF 13.34.180Order terminating parent and child relationship—Petition—Filing—Allegations.
HTMLPDF 13.34.190Order terminating parent and child relationship—Findings.
HTMLPDF 13.34.200Order terminating parent and child relationship—Rights of parties when granted.
HTMLPDF 13.34.210Order terminating parent and child relationship—Custody where no one has parental rights.
HTMLPDF 13.34.212Court-appointed attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding.
HTMLPDF 13.34.215Petition reinstating terminated parental rights—Notice—Achievement of permanency plan—Effect of granting the petition—Hearing—Child support liability—Retroactive application—Limitation on liability.
HTMLPDF 13.34.232Guardianship for dependent child—Order, contents—Rights and duties of dependency guardian.
HTMLPDF 13.34.233Guardianship for dependent child—Modification or termination of order—Hearing—Termination of guardianship.
HTMLPDF 13.34.234Guardianship for dependent child—Dependency guardianship subsidies.
HTMLPDF 13.34.235Guardianship for dependent child—Review hearing requirements not applicable—Exception.
HTMLPDF 13.34.237Guardianship for dependent child—Subject to dependency and termination of parent-child relationship provisions—Exceptions—Request to convert dependency guardianship to guardianship—Dismissal of dependency.
HTMLPDF 13.34.240Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.
HTMLPDF 13.34.245Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child—Validation—Withdrawal of consent—Termination.
HTMLPDF 13.34.260Foster home placement—Parental preferences—Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
HTMLPDF 13.34.265Foster home placement—Considerations.
HTMLPDF 13.34.267Extended foster care services—Maintenance of dependency proceeding—Placement, care of youth—Appointment of counsel—Case plan.
HTMLPDF 13.34.268Extended foster care services—Voluntary placement agreement—Decline—Petition for dependency.
HTMLPDF 13.34.270Child with developmental disability—Out-of-home placement—Permanency planning hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.34.300Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.
HTMLPDF 13.34.315Health care—Evaluation and treatment.
HTMLPDF 13.34.320Inpatient mental health treatment—When parental consent required—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.34.330Inpatient mental health treatment—Placement.
HTMLPDF 13.34.340Release of records—Disclosure to treating physician.
HTMLPDF 13.34.350Dependent children—Information sharing—Guidelines.
HTMLPDF 13.34.360Transfer of newborn to qualified person—Criminal liability—Notification to child protective services—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 13.34.370Evaluation of parties—Selection of evaluators.
HTMLPDF 13.34.380Visitation policies and protocols—Development—Elements.
HTMLPDF 13.34.385Petition for visitation—Relatives of dependent children—Notice—Modification of order—Effect of granting the petition—Retroactive application.
HTMLPDF 13.34.390Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.
HTMLPDF 13.34.400Child welfare proceedings—Placement—Documentation.
HTMLPDF 13.34.410Psychosexual evaluation.
HTMLPDF 13.34.420Qualified residential treatment program—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 13.34.425Qualified residential treatment program—Placement—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 13.34.430Social study—Required information.
HTMLPDF 13.34.435Washington state center for court research—Attorney-client privilege.
HTMLPDF 13.34.440Federal waivers.
HTMLPDF 13.34.800Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants—Model project.
HTMLPDF 13.34.801Rules—Definition of "drug-affected infant."
HTMLPDF 13.34.802Rules—Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."
HTMLPDF 13.34.820Permanency for dependent children—Annual report.
HTMLPDF 13.34.830Child protection and child welfare—Racial disproportionality—Evaluation—Report.
HTMLPDF 13.34.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
HTMLPDF 13.34.901Construction—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.