Property Division & Spousal Support
This 6-page document is mailed to all dissolution clients prior to mediation (and is included in your manuals!).
What is the Dissolution Packet?
Our presentations on Domestic Violence in mediation is designed to help increase mediator sensitivity to this in family mediations.
What is unrecognized (or unreported, unsuspected, etc.) DV?
Statute-driven table for setting compensation by parents to support families.
What is the Child Support Schedule?
This is the document that mediators will be using to scribe PP agreements during mediation.
What is the Parenting Plan Worksheet?
A type of residential schedule that is not recommended for infants and that some parents may erroneously seek in order to avoid child support obligations.
What is a 50-50 split?
The legal term for unmarried romantic partners in WA State.
What is Meretricious or “Family Like” Relationship?
This set of procedures is what the DRC of Kitsap County has crafted to guide intake and mediation process in cases of suspected history of DV.
What are the Kitsap DRC DV Protocols?
A change to the amount owed to the other parent due to “residential schedule credit” or other reason.
What is Child Support Deviation?
This is one of the primary provisions of the PP for which the relative strength, nature and stability of the child’s relationship with each parent is the primary consideration.
What is the Residential or Parent Time Schedule?
This is the primary underlying principle of WA family law.
What is the Best Interest of the child?
This is accumulated by married couples from the time they are married until their legal separation, excluding gifts or inheritance.
What is common property?
This is a valuable mediation tool for assessing the presence of DV in family mediations using specific types of questions.
What is caucus?
This method is used to determine what a parent will pay when income is unknown, or they are un/underemployed.
What is imputing income?
These limit decision- making and residential provisions for either parent and are rarely mediated.
What are restrictions?
Exploring tools in this discipline can help us stay openly curious in mediations.
What is Mindfulness?
Money and investments are examples of this type of property.
What is intangible property?
When a pattern of power and control is suspected, the PP should be crafted to reduce the need for this between parties.
What is contact or communication?
This is not modifiable retroactively.
What is Child Support?
Particularly with younger children, quality time with both parents helps with this key developmental process.
What is bonding or attachment?
The waiting period between filing for divorce and when the final hearing can take place.
What is 90 days?
Quality of life during marriage is a factor for determining this.
What is Spousal Maintenance?
Safety of victims and accountability of abusers are the primary purpose of this initiative by the WA State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV).
What is the Fatality Review?
This can be waived by a co-parent as part of a material or financial exchange with the other co-parent when there is no public assistance.
What is Back Support?
The court has to determine this before modifying a parenting plan.
What is a “Finding of Adequate Cause?”
These are two of the four criteria of fairness common when there is a “positive” relationship.
What are equality, equity, generosity or need?