Revised Code of Washington
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Chapter 13.34 RCW
JUVENILE COURT ACT—DEPENDENCY AND TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
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13.34.010Short title.
13.34.020Legislative declaration of family unit as resource to be nurtured—Rights of child.
13.34.025Child dependency cases—Coordination of services—Remedial services.
13.34.030Definitions.
13.34.035Standard court forms—Rules—Administrative office of the courts to develop and establish—Failure to use or follow—Distribution.
13.34.040Petition to court to deal with dependent child—Application of federal Indian child welfare act.
13.34.045Educational liaison—Identification.
13.34.046Educational liaison—Responsibilities—Background checks.
13.34.050Court order to take child into custody, when—Hearing.
13.34.055Custody by law enforcement officer—Release from liability.
13.34.060Shelter care—Placement—Custody—Duties of parties.
13.34.062Shelter care—Notice of custody and rights.
13.34.065Shelter care—Hearing—Recommendation as to further need—Release.
13.34.067Shelter care—Case conference—Service agreement.
13.34.069Shelter care—Order and authorization of health care and education records.
13.34.070Summons when petition filed—Service procedure—Hearing, when—Contempt upon failure to appear—Required notice regarding Indian children.
13.34.080Summons when petition filed—Publication of notice.
13.34.090Rights under chapter proceedings.
13.34.092Rights under chapter proceedings—Appointment of counsel—Notice.
13.34.094Description of services provided to parents.
13.34.096Right to be heard—Notice.
13.34.100Appointment of guardian ad litem—Background information—Rights—Notification and inquiry—Review and removal.
13.34.102Guardian ad litem—Training—Registry—Selection—Substitution—Exception.
13.34.105Guardian ad litem—Duties—Immunity—Access to information.
13.34.107Guardian ad litem—Ex parte communications—Removal.
13.34.108Guardian ad litem—Fees.
13.34.110Hearings—Fact-finding and disposition—Time and place, notice.
13.34.115Hearings—Public excluded when in the best interests of the child—Notes and records—Video recordings.
13.34.120Social study and reports made available at disposition hearing—Contents—Notice to parents.
13.34.125Voluntary adoption plan—Consideration of preferences for proposed placement.
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.
13.34.132Petition seeking termination of parent-child relationship—Requirements.
13.34.134Permanent placement of child.
13.34.136Permanency plan of care.
13.34.138Review hearings—Findings—Duties of parties involved—In-home placement requirements—Housing assistance.
13.34.141Entry, order of disposition—Parent, guardian, or custodian of child to engage in services and maintain contact with child—Notice.
13.34.142Current placement episode—Calculation.
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.
13.34.147Case review panel—Creation—Duties.
13.34.150Modification of orders.
13.34.155Concurrent jurisdiction over nonparental actions for child custody—Establishment or modification of parenting plan.
13.34.160Order of support for dependent child.
13.34.161Order of support for dependent child—Noncompliance—Enforcement of judgment.
13.34.165Civil contempt—Grounds—Motion—Penalty—Detention review hearing.
13.34.174Order of alcohol or substance abuse diagnostic investigation and evaluation—Treatment plan—Breach of plan—Reports.
13.34.176Violation of alcohol or substance abuse treatment conditions—Hearing—Notice—Modification of order.
13.34.180Order terminating parent and child relationship—Petition—Filing—Allegations.
13.34.190Order terminating parent and child relationship—Findings.
13.34.200Order terminating parent and child relationship—Rights of parties when granted.
13.34.210Order terminating parent and child relationship—Custody where no one has parental rights.
13.34.212Court-appointed attorney for a child in a dependency proceeding.
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.
13.34.232Guardianship for dependent child—Order, contents—Rights and duties of dependency guardian.
13.34.233Guardianship for dependent child—Modification or termination of order—Hearing—Termination of guardianship.
13.34.234Guardianship for dependent child—Dependency guardianship subsidies.
13.34.235Guardianship for dependent child—Review hearing requirements not applicable—Exception.
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.
13.34.240Acts, records, and proceedings of Indian tribe or band given full faith and credit.
13.34.245Voluntary consent to foster care placement for Indian child—Validation—Withdrawal of consent—Termination.
13.34.260Foster home placement—Parental preferences—Foster parent contact with birth parents encouraged.
13.34.265Foster home placement—Considerations.
13.34.267Extended foster care services—Maintenance of dependency proceeding—Placement, care of youth—Appointment of counsel—Case plan.
13.34.268Extended foster care services—Voluntary placement agreement—Decline—Petition for dependency.
13.34.270Child with developmental disability—Out-of-home placement—Permanency planning hearing.
13.34.300Relevance of failure to cause juvenile to attend school to neglect petition.
13.34.315Health care—Evaluation and treatment.
13.34.320Inpatient mental health treatment—When parental consent required—Hearing.
13.34.330Inpatient mental health treatment—Placement.
13.34.340Release of records—Disclosure to treating physician.
13.34.350Dependent children—Information sharing—Guidelines.
13.34.360Transfer of newborn to qualified person—Criminal liability—Notification to child protective services—Definitions.
13.34.370Evaluation of parties—Selection of evaluators.
13.34.380Visitation policies and protocols—Development—Elements.
13.34.385Petition for visitation—Relatives of dependent children—Notice—Modification of order—Effect of granting the petition—Retroactive application.
13.34.390Comprehensive services for drug-affected and alcohol-affected mothers and infants.
13.34.400Child welfare proceedings—Placement—Documentation.
13.34.410Psychosexual evaluation.
13.34.420Qualified residential treatment program—Requirements.
13.34.425Qualified residential treatment program—Placement—Hearing.
13.34.430Social study—Required information.
13.34.435Washington state center for court research—Attorney-client privilege.
13.34.440Federal waivers.
13.34.800Drug-affected and alcohol-affected infants—Model project.
13.34.801Rules—Definition of "drug-affected infant."
13.34.802Rules—Definition of "alcohol-affected infant."
13.34.820Permanency for dependent children—Annual report.
13.34.830Child protection and child welfare—Racial disproportionality—Evaluation—Report.
13.34.900Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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.