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1.14 Jurisdiction Over the Children

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No Dependent Children of the Marriage

Section 1.3 Children of the Marriage Dependent Upon Either or Both Spouses asks, "Are there dependent children of the marriage?"  If you respond no, this dialog as well as others regarding children of the marriage are answered by default and grayed in not allowing the user to change the answer, see Figure 1.

Figure 1

dialog grayed in.

Dependent Children of the Marriage

By default, the two most common responses are preselected for you if there are dependent children of the marriage as shown in Figure 2.

  • The court has jurisdiction over the children for the reasons set forth below:
  • This state is the home state of the children because:
    • the children lived in Washington with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the commencement of this proceeding.
    • the children are less than six months old and have lived in Washington with a parent or a person acting as parent since birth.
    • any absences from Washington have been only temporary.
    • Washington was the home state of the children within six months before the commencement of this proceeding and the children are absent from the state but a parent or person acting as a parent continued to live in this state.
Figure 2

two most common responses are preselected

Document Preview Tab

For this demonstration, we have accepted the default answers and selected the first three options in the second part of the question as shown in Figure 3 of the Document Preview tab.

Figure 3
Document Preview tab

Continue to 1.15 Child Support and Parenting Plan for Dependent Children


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