APR 17
                  SUSPENSION FROM PRACTICE


     (a) Suspension from Practice: The Washington State Bar
Association shall request that the Supreme Court suspend a
member from the practice of law upon the execution of
written findings from an adjudicative process that: (1) the
member is more than six months delinquent in noncompliance
with a valid and enforceable order entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction requiring the member to pay child
support, and (2) the member has had the opportunity for an
adjudicative proceeding to contest the issue of compliance
with the child support order, and (3) there are currently no
good faith negotiations for a repayment agreement or other
modification of the order, and (4) there are no pending
judicial or administrative proceedings to determine whether
child support is delinquent.  A member shall be considered
in compliance with an order of child support if the member
is current with a payment arrangement pursuant to an order
which contemplates payments for past due child support.  The
hearing will be held, on actual notice to the member of no
less than sixty days.  The hearing shall otherwise be
conducted pursuant to and in accordance with the Rules for
Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct but will be for an
administrative suspension only so long as the conditions set
forth above exist.

     (b) Order of Suspension: After 60 days from the
execution of the written findings the Court may enter an
order suspending the member from practice, unless the member
submits satisfactory proof one of the conditions set forth
above does not exist.

     (c) Reinstatement: A member who has been
administratively suspended under this rule shall have a
right to submit proof of a condition for suspension no
longer exists.  The Court may enter an order of
reinstatement upon determination said proof is satisfactory
and so long as the member meets all other requirements to
practice law.

     (d) Rules of Professional Conduct not Superseded:
Nothing in this rule supersedes any of the Rules of
Professional Conduct.


[Adopted effective September 1, 1999; October 1, 2002.]