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Chapter 26.18 RCW

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

Complete chapter HTMLPDF

RCW dispositions

Sections

HTMLPDF 26.18.010Legislative findings.
HTMLPDF 26.18.020Definitions.
HTMLPDF 26.18.030Application—Liberal construction.
HTMLPDF 26.18.035Other civil and criminal remedies applicable.
HTMLPDF 26.18.040Support or maintenance proceedings.
HTMLPDF 26.18.050Failure to comply with support or maintenance order—Contempt action—Order to show cause—Bench warrant—Continuing jurisdiction.
HTMLPDF 26.18.055Child support liens.
HTMLPDF 26.18.070Mandatory wage assignment—Petition or motion.
HTMLPDF 26.18.080Wage assignment order or income withholding order—Issuance—Information transmitted to state support registry.
HTMLPDF 26.18.090Wage assignment order for unpaid maintenance—Contents—Amounts—Apportionment of disbursements.
HTMLPDF 26.18.110Wage assignment order or income withholding order—Employer's answer, duties, and liability—Priorities.
HTMLPDF 26.18.120Wage assignment order—Employer's answer—Form.
HTMLPDF 26.18.130Wage assignment order or income withholding order—Service.
HTMLPDF 26.18.140Hearing to quash, modify, or terminate wage assignment order or income withholding order—Grounds—Alternate payment plan.
HTMLPDF 26.18.150Bond or other security.
HTMLPDF 26.18.160Costs.
HTMLPDF 26.18.170Medical support—Enforcement—Rules.
HTMLPDF 26.18.180Liability of employer or union—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 26.18.190Compensation paid by agency, self-insurer, social security administration, or veterans' administration on behalf of child.
HTMLPDF 26.18.210Child support data report.
HTMLPDF 26.18.220Standard court forms—Mandatory use.
HTMLPDF 26.18.230Residential time summary report form.
HTMLPDF 26.18.240Extension of rights and responsibilities—Domestic partnerships.
HTMLPDF 26.18.901Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

Notes:

Child support registry: Chapter 26.23 RCW.
Family abandonment, penalty: RCW 26.20.030.
Family nonsupport, penalty: RCW 26.20.035.
Homestead subject to execution for child support or spousal maintenance: RCW 6.13.080.