Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

This is a new and emerging area of family law: what rights to parents have over their children's image being used by third parties online?

In my opinion, you have some options. Since mom has agreed to tell the boyfriend to remove the photos, and he apparently has not, if I were you, I would hire counsel to write a letter to she and the boyfriend detailing your communication with mom and the fact that she tells you she has told boyfriend to take down the photos. If I were the attorney, I would also write that since this has not happened, my client is not sure if mom is just paying him lip service or if she really did follow through and boyfriend is ignoring both of you. Then I'd give boyfriend 72 hours to take down the photos and tell him you would otherwise go to court to seek an injunction preventing him from displaying any photos of your children on any public site without your permission.

I think you will get that injunction based upon your right as a parent to act on your children's behalf to protect their interest in their image. This is not the same as a photo someone takes which your children happen to pose for or are caught in the background of and the person taking their photo has no idea who they are. This is a person who knows your children, is aware of your objection to posing them in a certain way and posting these photos with their names online. I think it goes over the line and I think you can stop it.