Search results for contempt of court
Contempt of Court: When the other person in your case won’t follow a court order
General information about Washington law on contempt in family law cases. It covers only the type of contempt most common to family law cases, called “coercive civil contempt.” Find out how to have a person who is violating a court order obey that order in the future. #3107EN
File a Motion for Contempt: Family Law Cases
Blank forms to print and fill out on your own, with how-to instructions for completing and filing. Use this if you already have a temporary or permanent parenting plan, child support order, or other family law order AND you want the court in the same Washington county to issue an order holding the other party in contempt for violating it. #3108EN
Respond to a Motion for Contempt: Family Law Cases
Blank forms to print and fill out on your own, with how-to instructions for completing and filing. #3110EN
Enforcing your Final Divorce Order: Money and Property Issues
How to make sure your ex-spouse follows your final divorce order, and how to collect the money or property your ex must pay or give you. #3234EN
Parenting Plans: General Info
What a parenting plan is and how to get one. Learn how to enforce or change a permanent parenting plan. #3230EN
Changing a Parenting Plan or Child Custody Order
Learn more about when and how you can change the final court order awarding custody and visitation of your children. This order might be a Custody Decree or Order, Residential Schedule, or Parenting Plan. #3104EN
Protections for Native American survivors of domestic violence
Learn about how this federal law addresses violence against Native American and Alaskan Native survivors of any gender living in the United States. #3702EN
Supplemental Proceedings
If a creditor has a judgment ordered by a court and wants to collect the money from you, you may get an order to attend a Supplemental Proceedings court hearing. #0210EN
How to use written questions and requests for documents in a family law case
Read this if you are a party in a contested family law case (“contested” means you and the other party disagree about issues) AND you want or need to get more information from the other party about their side of the issues. #3900EN
How can I collect child support?
Learn how the Division of Child Support (DCS), whose services are free, can help you set and collect child support. There is a locator service to help find parents who owe support. #3812EN
Divorce and Other Options for Ending Your Marriage WITH Children in Washington State
If you have children and are considering getting a divorce, read this first. This does not include court forms but will guide you to the forms you need. #3240EN
Parentage and Parenting Plans
Learn the laws that apply when you have a child and you are not married to or in a registered domestic partnership with the child’s other parent. #3601EN