Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 26.27.011 (2026)

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This chapter may be cited as the uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act.

[ 2001 c 65 s 101.]

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Cited in 4 cases, 2007–2017 · leading case: Tostado v. Tostado, 151 P.3d 1060 (Wash. Ct. App. 2007).

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Tostado v. Tostado, 151 P.3d 1060 (Wash. Ct. App. 2007). “Also, as we discuss below, the factual circumstances surrounding the Mexican dissolution process substantially conformed to the recodified Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act's (UCCJEA) requirements for acknowledging the validity of a foreign jurisdiction's…”

In re the Marriage of Tostado, 137 Wash. App. 136 (Wash. Ct. App. 2007). “Also, as we discuss below, the factual circumstances surrounding the Mexican dissolution process substantially conformed to the recod-ified Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act’s (UCCJEA), chapter 26.”

Darcie Gilliard & on behalf of minor Child. v. Jacob Alton Leatherman (Minn. Ct. App. 2016). “in Washington, and I.M.L.’s home state at the time the HRO petitions were filed was Washington.”

Christien Freeman v. Steven Wallace (Wash. Ct. App. 2017). “"22 "If the type of controversy is within the subject matter jurisdiction, then all other defects or errors go to something other than subject matter jurisdiction.”

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