The court held that the trial court could not require the mother to move to Washington to enable frequent, brief residential exchanges where the statutory safeguards for that schedule were absent and no limiting factor justified restricting her conduct.
Washington Supreme Court, 1997
Published opinions from 1997. The case name opens the case page.
1997 opinions
The majority rejects the defendant’s challenges to the initial search warrant, the searches conducted under the warrants, and the scope of his consent to search. It also upholds the challenged evidentiary rulings and finds no prosecutorial misconduct in the incidents discussed; it rejects the requests for substitute…
The court rejected the challenges visible in this excerpt to the search warrants and consent search, evidentiary rulings, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, and denial of substitution of counsel or self-representation.
The Washington Supreme Court held that service of child‑support‑modification pleadings by certified mail that is returned unclaimed satisfies RCW 26.09.175(2) and the Fourteenth‑Amendment due‑process requirement, and therefore affirmed the Court of Appeals.