State law, in the United States, is the law of each separate U.S. state, as passed by the state legislature and signed into law by the state governor. It exists in parallel, and sometimes in conflict with, U.S. federal law. These disputes are often resolved by the courts, and at least once by civil war. A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... Federal law is the body of law created by the federal government of a nation. ... The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America between the United States of America, called the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the Union. ...
Two law libraries in Washington accept reference questions by email: the King County Law Library, http://www.kcll.org/referenceoptions.html, and the Washington StateLaw Library, http://www.courts.wa.gov/library/needhelp.cfm.
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, Family Law, http://www.consumerrights.net/chapter4.html, deals with divorce.
The Family Law Handbook for Washington State, http://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/FamilyLawHandbook.pdf, covers prenuptial agreements, ending a marriage, community property, alimony, shared parenting, relocation, child support, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and community resources.
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