Lewis County Superior Court

		
		
                          LMPSR 1.1
                     PARENTING SEMINARS

  A.   The parents, petitioners, and respondents  shall
     complete a parenting seminar approved by the Court in all
     cases filed under RCW Chapters 26.09, 26.10, and 26.26,
     which require a parenting or residential plan or custody
     order for minor children, including marital dissolutions,
     legal separations, paternity residential plans, non-parent
     custody actions, any action where one or both of the parties
     is under the age of eighteen (18) years, and any action in
     which the Court makes a discretionary finding that a
     parenting seminar would be in the best interest of the
     children.   The Court may also order additional persons
     involved in the parenting of the minor children to attend
     the parenting seminar.

  B.   Major Modifications of Parenting/Residential Plans or
     Custody
     Orders:   All parents, petitioners, and respondents involved in a
     major modification of a parenting or residential plan or custody
     order need to have attended the parenting seminar at least once
     since the original case was filed before the court will enter
     modified parenting or residential plans or custody orders.  A
     copy of the attendance certificate shall be filed with the Clerk
     of the Court.


[Adopted effective September 1, 1995; Amended effective September 1,
2007]