Proserpina
Senior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA
Here is again the statute you mention: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=26.16.205
Wouldn't RCW 26.16.205 only apply to a couple who are married or in a registered domestic partnership? A simple marriage (creating a stepparent) does not a domestic partnership make, surely?
I had also initially mis- (well half- if truth be told) read the statute. Apologies for any incorrect info on my part (although there was, over 15 years ago, apparentlly a case where a stepfather who'd basically raised the kids ALONE - without EITHER parent - who no longer could or would (whichever), and found that while he could absolutely hand 'em over to whomever relatively easily but was bound to support them. Odd).
Here is again the statute you mention: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=26.16.205
Wouldn't RCW 26.16.205 only apply to a couple who are married or in a registered domestic partnership? A simple marriage (creating a stepparent) does not a domestic partnership make, surely?
I had also initially mis- (well half- if truth be told) read the statute. Apologies for any incorrect info on my part (although there was, over 15 years ago, apparentlly a case where a stepfather who'd basically raised the kids ALONE - without EITHER parent - who no longer could or would (whichever), and found that while he could absolutely hand 'em over to whomever relatively easily but was bound to support them. Odd).