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To ask for custody, you must open a case with the superior court where you live or where the other parent lives. It may be a stand-alone custody case or a divorce, legal separation, annulment or parentage (paternity) case. After filing the initial paperwork, serve the other parent to officially notify them.

Use this form if you believe the court's decision was legally incorrect or you have newly discovered evidence, and you want the same judge or commissioner to reconsider their decision. If you want a judge to review a commissioner's decision, use the Motion for Revision (form PO 110).

To ask for custody, you must open a case with the superior court where you live or where the other parent lives. It may be a stand-alone custody case or a divorce, legal separation, annulment or parentage (paternity) case. After filing the initial paperwork, serve the other parent to officially notify them.

Sole custody is relatively uncommon in Washington, but it is not unheard of. The courts will only grant 100 percent custody to one parent if it is not in the child's best interest to remain in the care of the other parent.

Factors the Washington State Court Will Consider The child's relationship with each parent. The child's relationship with siblings or other individuals in each parent's household. Each parent's ability to care for their child. The physical, emotional, and mental health of each parent.

In both Washington and Oregon, a child can only choose which parent they'd like to live with when they turn 18 or are otherwise emancipated. Minor children are not considered capable of making such decisions for themselves and are not permitted to ?choose? living with one parent over another.