Legal Aid Informational Packets

Objecting when the Other Parent wants to move with the Children

If you are a noncustodial parent with the right to time with the child under a parenting plan, you can use this packet to try to stop the custodial parent from moving with your child. If you are a third party with some right to time with the child, you have the right to try to stop any proposed relocation if you believe it would interfere with your relationship with the child.

Dismiss a Divorce

This packet will help you dismiss a Petition for Divorce that you filed with the court. You may use this packet if you change your mind and no longer want to get divorced. An Order of Dismissal will cancel your divorce and you will stay married.

Durable Power of Attorney Documents

A power of attorney document lets you choose a trusted friend or relative to help you with your finances and/or health care decisions. Forms for you to fill out are provided.

The Superior Court of Washington in and for Walla Walla County Local Rules

WWLDRR 94.04W Alternate Residential Time Guidelines (Formerly Local Rule 18)

Ask the Court to Waive Your Filing Fees

This packet includes the instructions and forms needed to ask the court to waive (not ask for) the filing fee required to file court papers in a civil case because you can't afford to pay the fee.

File a Motion For Contempt: Family Law Cases

This packet should help you fill out and file the forms and papers you need 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.

Respond to a Motion for Contempt: Family Law Cases

This packet is intended to help you fill out and file court forms if you have been served with a Motion or Petition for Contempt for violating a temporary or permanent parenting plan/residential schedule, a child support order, or other family law order.

Motion to Vacate Judgment/Order in a Family Law Case

How to File a Motion to Vacate a Judgment/Order in a Family Law Case (CR 60)

Order on Motion to Vacate Judgement / Order

How to File a Motion to Vacate a Judgment/Order in a Family Law Case (CR 60)

File for Change of Venue in a Family Law Case

This packet has the instructions and forms you need to ask the court to move your family law case to a different county. This is called a Motion for Change of Venue. Use this packet if your case is a divorce OR petition to change parenting plan, child support order, or final order entered in a divorce AND the other party filed your case in the wrong county (such as a county where neither party lives), or it would be more convenient for you to finalize your case in a different county.

Service by Mail or Publication

This packet applies when you are the petitioner and you must serve the opposing party with the petition and other documents in your case when your case first begins. When you have tried to serve the other party in person but cannot, you can ask the court to allow you to serve by certified mail or publication.

Unmarried Couples: File a Complaint to Divide Your Property and Debts

This packet will help you fill out and file the forms and papers you need to start a case in a Washington State Superior Court to ask the court to divide property and debts you have acquired during a long term, stable, marriage-like relationship with another adult.

Serving Papers on the State

When you set or change child support, you must notify the State if you, the other parent, or the children receive public assistance. This packet contains the forms and instructions for serving your court papers on the state.

Following Washington’s Relocation Law

Use this packet if you have legal custody of your child, and you wish to move (“relocate”) and take the child with you. Under state law, you may have to do certain things before you move.