Legal Opinion
Guard v. Jackson
Washington Supreme Court
Decided July 24, 1997No. 64704-6PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDoixiver, J.
RCW 4.24.010 authorizes parents to file a wrongful death action for the death of their minor child. In the case of an illegitimate child, however, the statute requires the father to have contributed regularly to the financial support of the child before the father can join in the action. The statute places no such contribution requirement on the mother of an illegitimate child. We find the support requirement violates Washington’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (Const, art. XXXI, § 1).
*662Jeffrey King Beeston, Jr. (Jeffrey), was born to Toni Rae Guard and Jeffrey Beeston (Beeston) in 1988. Beeston…
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