Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 13 Juvenile Courts And Juvenile Offenders - Chapter 13.32A Family Reconciliation Act

• 13.32A.010 Legislative findings and intent
  The legislature finds that within any group of people there exists a need for guidelines for acceptable behavior and that, presumptively, the experience and maturity ...
• 13.32A.015 At-risk youth services -- Intent
  It is the intent of the legislature to: (1) Preserve, strengthen, and reconcile families experiencing problems with at-risk youth; (2) Provide a legal process by ...
• 13.32A.020 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the family reconciliation act.[1990 c 276 § 2; 1979 c 155 § 16.]Notes:      Conflict with ...
• 13.32A.030 Definitions -- Regulating leave from semi-secure facility
  As used in this chapter the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Abuse or neglect" means the injury, ...
• 13.32A.040 Family reconciliation services
  Families who are in conflict or who are experiencing problems with at-risk youth or a child who may be in need of services may request ...
• 13.32A.042 Multidisciplinary team -- Formation
  (1)(a) The administrator of a crisis residential center may convene a multidisciplinary team, which is to be locally based and administered, at the request of ...
• 13.32A.044 Multidisciplinary team -- Purpose -- Authority
  (1) The purpose of the multidisciplinary team is to assist in a coordinated referral of the family to available social and health-related services. (2) The ...
• 13.32A.050 Officer taking child into custody -- When authorized -- Maximum time of custody -- Transporting to crisis residential center -- Report on suspected abuse or neglect
  (1) A law enforcement officer shall take a child into custody: (a) If a law enforcement agency has been contacted by the parent of the ...
• 13.32A.060 Officer taking child into custody -- Procedure -- Transporting to home, crisis residential center, custody of department, or juvenile detention facility
  (1) An officer taking a child into custody under RCW 13.32A.050(1) (a) or (b) shall inform the child of the reason for such custody and ...
• 13.32A.065 Officer taking child into custody -- Placing in detention -- Detention review hearing -- Hearing on contempt (as amended by 2000 c 123)
  (1) ((A child may be placed in detention after being taken into custody pursuant to RCW 13.32A.050(1)(d).)) If a child is placed in detention under ...
• 13.32A.065 Officer taking child into custody -- Placing in detention -- Detention review hearing -- Hearing on contempt (as amended by 2000 c 162)
  (1) ((A child may be placed in detention after being taken into custody pursuant to RCW 13.32A.050(1)(d).)) If a child is placed in detention under ...
• 13.32A.070 Immunity from liability for law enforcement officer and person with whom child is placed
  (1) A law enforcement officer acting in good faith pursuant to this chapter is immune from civil or criminal liability for such action. (2) A ...
• 13.32A.080 Unlawful harboring of a minor -- Penalty -- Defense -- Prosecution of adult for involving child in commission of offense
  (1)(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful harboring of a minor if the person provides shelter to a minor without the consent of a ...
• 13.32A.082 Providing shelter to minor -- Requirement to notify parent, law enforcement, or department
  (1) Any person who, without legal authorization, provides shelter to a minor and who knows at the time of providing the shelter that the minor ...
• 13.32A.084 Providing shelter to minor -- Immunity from liability
  If a person provides the notice required in RCW 13.32A.082, he or she is immune from liability for any cause of action arising from providing ...
• 13.32A.086 Duty of law enforcement agencies to identify runaway children under RCW 43.43.510
  Whenever a law enforcement agency receives a report from a parent that his or her child, or child over whom the parent has custody, has ...
• 13.32A.090 Duty to inform parents -- Transportation to child's home or out-of-home placement -- Notice to department
  (1) The administrator of a designated crisis residential center or the department shall perform the duties under subsection (3) of this section: (a) Upon admitting ...
• 13.32A.095 Unauthorized leave from crisis residential center -- Notice to parents, law enforcement, and the department
  The administrator of a crisis residential center shall notify parents, the appropriate law enforcement agency, and the department immediately as to any unauthorized leave from ...
• 13.32A.100 Family reconciliation services for child in out-of-home placement
  Where a child is placed in an out-of-home placement pursuant to RCW 13.32A.090(3)(d)(ii), the department shall make available family reconciliation services in order to facilitate ...
• 13.32A.110 Interstate compact to apply, when
  If a child who has a legal residence outside the state of Washington is admitted to a crisis residential center or is released by a ...
• 13.32A.120 Out-of-home placement -- Agreement, continuation -- Petition to approve or continue
  (1) Where either a child or the child's parent or the person or facility currently providing shelter to the child notifies the center that such ...
• 13.32A.125 Temporary out-of-home placement in semi-secure crisis residential center
  In approving a petition under this chapter, a child may be placed in a semi-secure crisis residential center as a temporary out-of-home placement under the ...
• 13.32A.130 Child admitted to secure facility -- Maximum hours of custody -- Evaluation for semi-secure facility or release to department -- Parental right to remove child -- Reconciliation effort -- Information to parent and child -- Written statement of services and rights -- Crisis residential center immunity from liability
  (1) A child admitted to a secure facility shall remain in the facility for at least twenty-four hours after admission but for not more than ...
• 13.32A.140 Out-of-home placement -- Child in need of services petition by department -- Procedure
  Unless the department files a dependency petition, the department shall file a child in need of services petition to approve an out-of-home placement on behalf ...
• 13.32A.150 Out-of-home placement -- Child in need of services petition by child or parent
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the juvenile court shall not accept the filing of a child in need of services petition by ...
• 13.32A.152 Child in need of services petition -- Service on parents -- Notice to department -- Required notice regarding Indian children
  (1) Whenever a child in need of services petition is filed by: (a) A youth pursuant to RCW 13.32A.150; (b) the child or the child's ...
• 13.32A.160 Out-of-home placement -- Court action upon filing of child in need of services petition -- Child placement
  (1) When a proper child in need of services petition to approve an out-of-home placement is filed under RCW 13.32A.120, 13.32A.140, or 13.32A.150 the juvenile ...
• 13.32A.170 Out-of-home placement -- Fact-finding hearing
  (1) The court shall hold a fact-finding hearing to consider a proper child in need of services petition, giving due weight to the intent of ...
• 13.32A.175 Out-of-home placement -- Contribution to child's support -- Enforcement of order
  In any proceeding in which the court approves an out-of-home placement, the court shall inquire into the ability of parents to contribute to the child's ...
• 13.32A.177 Out-of-home placement -- Determination of support payments
  A determination of support payments ordered under RCW 13.32A.175 shall be based upon chapter 26.19 RCW.[1995 c 312 § 22; 1988 c 275 § 14.]Notes: ...
• 13.32A.178 Out-of-home placement -- Child support -- Exceptions
  The department of social and health services shall promulgate rules that create good cause exceptions to the establishment and enforcement of child support from parents ...
• 13.32A.179 Out-of-home placement -- Disposition hearing -- Court order -- Dispositional plan -- Child subject to contempt proceedings -- Dismissal of order at request of department or parent
  (1) A disposition hearing shall be held no later than fourteen days after the approval of the temporary out-of-home placement. The parents, child, and department ...
• 13.32A.180 Out-of-home placement -- Court order -- No placement in secure residence
  (1) If the court orders a three-month out-of-home placement for the child, the court shall specify the person or agency with whom the child shall ...
• 13.32A.190 Out-of-home placement dispositional order -- Review hearings -- Time limitation on out-of-home placement -- Termination of placement at request of parent
  (1) Upon making a dispositional order under RCW 13.32A.179, the court shall schedule the matter on the calendar for review within three months, advise the ...
• 13.32A.191 At-risk youth -- Petition by parent
  (1) A child's parent may file with the juvenile court a petition in the interest of a child alleged to be an at-risk youth. The ...
• 13.32A.192 At-risk youth petition -- Prehearing procedures
  (1) When a proper at-risk youth petition is filed by a child's parent under this chapter, the juvenile court shall: (a)(i) Schedule a fact-finding hearing ...
• 13.32A.194 At-risk youth petition -- Court procedures
  (1) The court shall hold a fact-finding hearing to consider a proper at-risk youth petition. The court shall grant the petition and enter an order ...
• 13.32A.196 At-risk youth petition -- Dispositional hearing
  (1) A dispositional hearing shall be held no later than fourteen days after the fact-finding hearing. Each party shall be notified of the time and ...
• 13.32A.197 Disposition hearing -- Additional orders for specialized treatment -- Review hearings -- Limitation -- Use of state funds
  (1) In a disposition hearing, after a finding that a child is a child in need of services or an at-risk youth, the court may ...
• 13.32A.198 At-risk youth -- Review by court
  (1) Upon making a disposition regarding an adjudicated at-risk youth, the court shall schedule the matter on the calendar for review within three months, advise ...
• 13.32A.200 Hearings under chapter -- Time or place -- Public excluded
  (1) All hearings pursuant to this chapter may be conducted at any time or place within the county of the residence of the parent and ...
• 13.32A.205 Acceptance of petitions by court -- Damages
  No superior court may refuse to accept for filing a properly completed and presented child in need of services petition or an at-risk youth petition. ...
• 13.32A.210 Foster home placement -- Parental preferences
  In an attempt to minimize the inherent intrusion in the lives of families involved in the foster care system and to maintain parental authority where ...
• 13.32A.250 Failure to comply with order as civil contempt -- Motion -- Penalties
  (1) In all child in need of services proceedings and at-risk youth proceedings, the court shall verbally notify the parents and the child of the ...
• 13.32A.300 No entitlement to services created by chapter
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to create an entitlement to services nor to create judicial authority to order the provision at public expense ...