Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

child support /college

My step-daughter's parents have/had joint custody of her from a CA. divorce around 1995. The custody has the mother as primary care giver with father paying child support. Since then both parents have moved out of state one to CO, and one to WA. The father continued to pay support and transportation cost to see his daughter. The daughter came to live with father full time 8th -12th. Mother did not pay support. Now child is in college mother says that we have to pay 1/2 of college as per divorce settlement. Can settlement still be up-held in court?

Both parents are now living in WA daughter is in OR.


Asked on 2/13/09, 9:46 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Christopher Steuart IT Forensics, Inc.

Re: child support /college

The order can be enforced in WA. The judgment (decree or order) would have to be registered in WA. Your spouse will need to file a certified copy of the the document in the Superior Court Clerk's office, if both parents live in the same county that would be the easiest, but it will definitely have to be in a county that one of them lives in. Then appropriate notice would have to be provided to the other party (notice is a precise process). If the other parent does not object within 20 days, then the registration becomes effective. If the other parent objects then there is a hearing, scheduling of a hearing is controlled by local rules.

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Answered on 2/16/09, 5:27 pm


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