Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

Re: pension

A property division is not subject to modification by the court, so that will not work. It is final. Your right to appeal the result expired after 30 days. The only possibility would be an Motion to Vacate, but after 1 year, the grounds are extremely limited. You would have to prove something like fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct on his part. Your bad decision would not be sufficient to vacate the order. Property divisions are final.

Re: pension

Unless there is much more to the situation than what you have stated, you are not going to be able to get the property settlement vacated, see Mr. Mogren's answer for more on that. This may be the most serious downside of doing a divorce with a paralegal preparing the documents; they will generally not examine the details of the dissolution or counsel a client on the full range of considerations.

Re: pension

Would love to present your situation to the Bar, that is trying to set up a program to have non attorneys provide family law services for clients.

You should consider suing the paralegal for unauthorized practice of law. This is why you need counsel to help with dissolutions, because awful stuff like this happens and then it cannot be undone.

Elizabeth Powell