Juvenile Court Act—Dependency and Termination of Parent-Child Relationship.

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Section
13.34.010

Short title.

Section
13.34.020

Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured—Rights of child.

Section
13.34.025

Child dependency cases—Coordination of services—Remedial services.

Section
13.34.030

Definitions.

Section
13.34.035

Standard court forms—Rules—Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish—Failure to use or follow—Distribution.

Section
13.34.040

Petition to court to deal with dependent child—Application of federal Indian child welfare act.

Section
13.34.045

Educational liaison—Identification.

Section
13.34.046

Educational liaison—Responsibilities—Background checks.

Section
13.34.050

Court order to take child into custody, when—Hearing.

Section
13.34.055

Custody by law enforcement officer—Release from liability.

Section
13.34.060

Shelter care—Placement—Custody—Duties of parties.

Section
13.34.062

Shelter care—Notice of custody and rights.

Section
13.34.065

Shelter care—Hearing—Recommendation as to further need—Release.

Section
13.34.067

Shelter care—Case conference—Service agreement.

Section
13.34.069

Shelter care—Order and authorization of health care and education records.

Section
13.34.070

Summons when petition filed—Service procedure—Hearing, when—Contempt upon failure to appear—Required notice regarding Indian children.

Section
13.34.080

Summons when petition filed—Publication of notice.

Section
13.34.090

Rights under chapter proceedings.

Section
13.34.092

Rights under chapter proceedings—Appointment of counsel—Notice.

Section
13.34.094

Description of services provided to parents.

Section
13.34.096

Right to be heard—Notice.

Section
13.34.100

Appointment of guardian ad litem—Background information—Rights—Notification and inquiry—Review and removal.

Section
13.34.102

Guardian ad litem—Training—Registry—Selection—Substitution—Exception.

Section
13.34.105

Guardian ad litem—Duties—Immunity—Access to information.

Section
13.34.107

Guardian ad litem—Ex parte communications—Removal.

Section
13.34.108

Guardian ad litem—Fees.

Section
13.34.110

Hearings—Fact-finding and disposition—Time and place, notice.

Section
13.34.115

Hearings—Public excluded when in the best interests of the child—Notes and records—Video recordings.

Section
13.34.120

Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing—Contents—Notice to parents.

Section
13.34.125

Voluntary adoption plan—Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.

Section
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.

Section
13.34.132

Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship—Requirements.

Section
13.34.134

Permanent placement of child.

Section
13.34.136

Permanency plan of care.

Section
13.34.138

Review hearings—Findings—Duties of parties involved—In-home placement requirements—Housing assistance.

Section
13.34.141

Entry, order of disposition—Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child—Notice.

Section
13.34.142

Current placement episode—Calculation.

Section
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.

Section
13.34.147

Case review panel—Creation—Duties.

Section
13.34.150

Modification of orders.

Section
13.34.155

Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody—Establishment or modification of parenting plan.

Section
13.34.160

Order of support for dependent child.

Section
13.34.161

Order of support for dependent child—Noncompliance—Enforcement of judgment.

Section
13.34.165

Civil contempt—Grounds—Motion—Penalty—Detention review hearing.

Section
13.34.174

Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation—Treatment plan—Breach of plan—Reports.

Section
13.34.176

Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions—Hearing—Notice—Modification of order.

Section
13.34.180

Order terminating parent and child relationship—Petition—Filing—Allegations.

Section
13.34.190

Order terminating parent and child relationship—Findings.

Section
13.34.200

Order terminating parent and child relationship—Rights of parties when granted.

Section
13.34.210

Order terminating parent and child relationship—Custody where no one has parental rights.

Section
13.34.212

Court-appointed attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding.

Section
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.

Section
13.34.232

Guardianship for dependent child—Order, contents—Rights and duties of dependency guardian.

Section
13.34.233

Guardianship for dependent child—Modification or termination of order—Hearing—Termination of guardianship.

Section
13.34.234

Guardianship for dependent child—Dependency guardianship subsidies.

Section
13.34.235

Guardianship for dependent child—Review hearing requirements not applicable—Exception.

Section
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.

Section
13.34.240

Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.

Section
13.34.245

Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child—Validation—Withdrawal of consent—Termination.

Section
13.34.260

Foster home placement—Parental preferences—Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.

Section
13.34.265

Foster home placement—Considerations.

Section
13.34.267

Extended foster care services—Maintenance of dependency proceeding—Placement, care of youth—Appointment of counsel—Case plan.

Section
13.34.268

Extended foster care services—Voluntary placement agreement—Decline—Petition for dependency.

Section
13.34.270

Child with developmental disability—Out-of-home placement—Permanency planning hearing.

Section
13.34.300

Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.

Section
13.34.315

Health care—Evaluation and treatment.

Section
13.34.320

Inpatient mental health treatment—When parental consent required—Hearing.

Section
13.34.330

Inpatient mental health treatment—Placement.

Section
13.34.340

Release of records—Disclosure to treating physician.

Section
13.34.350

Dependent children—Information sharing—Guidelines.

Section
13.34.360

Transfer of newborn to qualified person—Criminal liability—Notification to child protective services—Definitions.

Section
13.34.370

Evaluation of parties—Selection of evaluators.

Section
13.34.380

Visitation policies and protocols—Development—Elements.

Section
13.34.385

Petition for visitation—Relatives of dependent children—Notice—Modification of order—Effect of granting the petition—Retroactive application.

Section
13.34.390

Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.

Section
13.34.400

Child welfare proceedings—Placement—Documentation.

Section
13.34.410

Psychosexual evaluation.

Section
13.34.420

Qualified residential treatment program—Requirements.

Section
13.34.425

Qualified residential treatment program—Placement—Hearing.

Section
13.34.430

Social study—Required information.

Section
13.34.435

Washington state center for court research—Attorney-client privilege.

Section
13.34.440

Federal waivers.

Section
13.34.800

Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants—Model project.

Section
13.34.801

Rules—Definition of "drug-affected infant."

Section
13.34.802

Rules—Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."

Section
13.34.820

Permanency for dependent children—Annual report.

Section
13.34.830

Child protection and child welfare—Racial disproportionality—Evaluation—Report.

Section
13.34.900

Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

Section
13.34.901

Construction—Prevention services.