In re the Parenting Plan of Hall

¶1 In State ex rel. Mauerman v. Superior Court, 44 Wn.2d 828, 271 P.2d 435 (1954), the Washington Supreme Court held that a petition to modify the custody provisions of a divorce decree was a new proceeding within the meaning of Washington statutes entitling parties to litigation to one change of judge, with the result that the mother had a right to file an affidavit of prejudice and thereby disqualify the judge who had presided over her divorce. The Supreme Court refused to indulge the argument that “because the judge who settles the issue of custody of children at the trial of a divorce…