In re the Parentage of C.A.M.A.

— Washington’s current third party visitation statute, RCW 26.09.240, requires a nonparent seeking visitation to show a significant relationship with the child by clear and convincing evidence, as necessary predicate, and allows a petition by a nonparent 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 in the current statute distinguish it from that at issue in prior cases, In re Custody of Smith and *202Troxel v. Granville.1 Therefore, the…