Custody of a child in Washington, if not married ...

Although Chapter 26 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) applies equally to married and unmarried parents, must determine the unmarried father of a minor child shall paternity before his rights. ... .Generally Washington Child Custody courts decide custody of children under the "best interests of the child." .. .The courts take into account all relevant factors of a child's continued well-being to decide which device best serve those interests. ... .Under RCW 26.26.130 (7), the judge must use the same procedures to unmarried parents, it takes for parents who are married. ... .For unmarried parents, however, the establishment of paternity, an association of issue.Establishing mother under RCW Sec. ... Create 26.26.101 (A), a mother with ancestry are "birth of the child .." Other means of establishing parentage is for mothers, but this requirement is to determine the biological mother as guardian by default. Nothing else .appears, a child born to unmarried parents parents.Establishing father while the mother, motherhood, birth of the child, had to make. can not show a single father, who signed a paternity acknowledgment. paternity after the adoption of the child, with an earlier .study of paternity or a surrogate parentage contract shows that the father had the child ....