Port Orchard, Washington family law attorneys represented the parties divorce and division of property.

Kathleen M. and Maurice J. Bresnahan III1 married in 1992 and separated in 2014. In 2015, the trial court entered a decree dissolving their marriage, and the parties divided their property by settlement agreement, which the trial court adopted. In 2017, the parties reached another agree... More...    $0 (03-15-2022 - WA)

The child relocation act (CRA), RCW 26.09.405-
.560, sets forth the procedure and standards for certain child relocation requests. One
standard gives the relocating parent a favorable presumption that relocation will be
permitted. But by its terms, the CRA applies only to relocation requests made by a person
�with whom the child resides a majority of the time.�

Here, s... More...    $0 (06-28-2018 - WA)

This appeal pits the importance of finality in litigation against
the requisite for a full accounting of assets in a marital dissolution. Based on Washington
statutes and the Supreme Court's wisdom in Yeats v. Estate of Yeats, 90 Wn.2d 201, 580
P.2d 617 (1978), we side with an inclusive accounting. In this partition action, we
reverse the trial court's ruling that a dissolution dec... More...    $0 (05-23-2017 - WA)

Trial courts must make difficult decisions when competing
interests clash. In this case, a mother sought an emergency protection order to
keep her soon-to-be ex-husband away from her and their children because, she
alleged, he had abused them. The father denied the allegations and sought to
cross-examine one of the daughters about her claim that he had repeatedly tried to
suffo... More...    $0 (01-12-2017 - WA)

This case asks if out-of-network health care costs qualify as
"'[u]ninsured medical expenses"' under RCW 26.18.170(18)(d). Victor and Deanna
Zandi's dependent daughter, T.Z., incurred approximately $13,000 in medical bills
when she had a kidney stone removed while traveling outside the Kaiser Permanente
network. The superior court ordered Victor Zandi to pay 7 5 percent of the cost... More...    $0 (02-17-2017 - WA)

Rachelle and Charles Black were married for nearly 20
years and have three sons. They raised their children in a conservative Christian
church and sent them to private, Christian schools. In 2011, Rachelle1 told Charles
that she is a lesbian. In the order of dissolution, the trial court designated Charles as
the primary residential parent. The final parenting plan also awarded Char... More...    $0 (04-06-2017 - WA)

This case tests the limits of an employer’s attendance policy. Just how essential is showing up for work on a predictable basis? In the case of a neo-natal intensive care nurse, we conclude that attendance really is essential.

Monika Samper, a neo-natal intensive care unit (“NICU”) nurse, sought an accommodation from her employer, Providence St. Vincent (“Providence”), that would ... More...    $0 (04-11-2012 - WA)

Former Spokane Police Detective Jay Mehring, age 43, sued the City of Spokane, Washington and Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick claiming that he was wrongfully terminated by the Chief of Police in violation of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. 1983. He claimed that the City had no right to fire him in 2007 following allegations that the threatened to kill his wife during a messy divorce. He claimed... More...    $723000 (11-05-2011 - WA)

Amy Kozel appeals the trial court’s order denying her motion to intervene in this wrongful death of a child action by Steven Bunch, the personal

During their marriage, Steven Bunch and Amy Kozel adopted Ashlie and her younger sister. Bunch and Kozel were then residing in Florida. They divorced in 2001, three years after the two adoptions.

Thereafter, Bunch moved to Washington. Ashl... More...    $0 (02-07-2011 - WA)

Cung Ho's and Thuy Nguyen Ho's 14-year relationship ended when they and several others were killed in a car accident. We must determine whether the trial court abused its discretion when it allowed a party asserting a tort claim against the couple's property to intervene in an action between their estates. We must also determine whether Washington's law of meretricious1 or commi... More...    $0 (09-20-2007 - WA)

Stephanie and David Jannot were divorced in 1991. At that time they had one child. After the divorce, the couple had a second child. The final parenting plans placed the primary care and custody of both children with David Jannot (Mr. Jannot) and provided for alternate residential time with Stephanie Jannot (Ms. Jannot). In 2000, Ms. Jannot filed petitions to modify the parenting plans ... More...    $0 (03-27-2003 - WA)

Washington's law against discrimination declares it an unfair practice for any employer to discharge an employee because of his or her sensory, mental, or physical disability. RCW 49.60.180(2). Donald Roeber was discharged from employment with Dowty Aerospace Yakima after he was involved in an altercation with another employee. He sued, claiming Dowty terminated him because he suffers fr... More...    $0 (03-11-2003 - WA)

Jeremiah W. Holder ("Jeremiah"), a member of the United States Air Force stationed in Germany, appeals the order of the district court staying his petition for return of his children from Washington State to Germany under the Hague Conven-tion on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("the Hague Convention"), Oct. 25, 1980, 19 I.L.M. 1501, as implemented by the International Chi... More...    $0 (09-06-2002 - WA)