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IN RE PARENTAGE OF C.A.M.A.

No. 51001-1-I.

84 P.3d 1253 (2004)

In re PARENTAGE OF C.A.M.A., a minor child, Christian E. Appel, Respondent Father, and Christine S. Norton, Respondent Mother, Herlinde Appel, Appellant Intervenor.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

February 17, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Kenneth Wiggins, Kenneth Wendell Masters, Attorneys at Law, Bainbridge Island, WA, Mark Theodore Patterson, Snohomish County Bar President, Everett, WA, for Appellant Herlinde Appel.

David Anthony Kastle, Law Office of David Anthony Kastle, Lynnwood, WA, Jordan Gross, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Respondent Christian E. Appel.

Christine S. Norton, Port Townsend, WA, for Respondent Pro Se.

William Berggren Collins, Narda D. Pierce, Attorney General's Office, for Amicus Curiae Washington State Attorney General.

Marc T. Christianson, Attorney at Law, Tacoma, WA, Jonathan Mark Weiss, Law Office of J. Mark Weiss PS, Seattle, WA, for Amicus Curiae Washington State Bar Assn.

GROSSE, J.

Washington's current third party visitation statute, RCW 26.09.240, requires a non-parent seeking visitation to show a significant relationship with the child by clear and convincing evidence, as necessary predicate, and allows a petition by a non-parent only in the circumstance that the child's parent or parents have already commenced an action for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or modification of a parenting plan. These essential conditions...

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