Author: jim

With new legislators and a new governor to take office in 2025, raising the importance of enacting a Shared Parenting Bill of Rights during an election year may help a secure commitment from the next governor to prioritize this issue. A Shared Parenting Bill of Rights would create a default Read More …

See today’s hearing for House Bills 2237 and 2254. My input on bill 2254 starts around 19 minutes in and for bill 2237 at around 1 hour 49 minutes. The good news for bill 2254 is that a residential credit amendment may be introduced. Rep. Walsh is interested in adding Read More …

Two house bills, 2237 (https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2237…) and 2254 (https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2254…), will receive a House Civil Rights & Judiciary committee hearing tomorrow morning at 8 am. These bills will impact parenting plans and child support for parents in Washington. Anyone can sign up to testify (including remotely) at https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House (choose the Civil Rights Read More …

NPO is proud to endorse the efforts of the Washington Initiative for Boys and Men to create a Washington State Commission on Boys and Men. The bi-partisan bill (SB 5830 / HB 1270) is intended to produce policy recommendations focused on education, fatherhood & family, jobs / careers, mental and Read More …

Every four years the Child Support Schedule (CSS) Workgroup members meet to discuss child support related issues and make recommendations to the legislature. The 2023 CSS Workgroup report has now been sent to the legislature. As a Workgroup member who participated on the Economic Table and Residential Credit subcommittees, I Read More …

The 2023 Child Support Workgroup will be holding public forums on its upcoming recommendations that will impact the economic table, residential credit, and the self-support reserve. Come and make your voice heard to help shape the recommendations of the Workgroup. See the 2023 Child Support Schedule Workgroup page for more Read More …

On our road trips to Olympia on January 26th and February 10th, our group delivered NPO packets of shared parenting materials and a combined 140 copies of The Boy Crisis to nearly all legislators (some refuse all paper) and Gov. Jay Inslee. We met with legislators including Rep. Walsh, Rep. Read More …

In August 2021, Researchscape International conducted a poll commissioned by NPO Washington to determine the attitudes of those in Washington concerning shared parenting when parents live apart. This is the same poll that NPO is slowly conducting across all 50 states with more information at https://www.sharedparenting.org/shared-parenting-polling. The takeaway for Washington Read More …

Washington State has a shared parenting crisis that the Washington State Legislature could help solve this upcoming session. Approximately 75% of Washington families have unequal custody arrangements against the wishes of many fit, willing, and able parents. Unequal custody plans have extremely harmful and costly impacts as Drs. Farrell and Read More …