Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.010
Age of majority
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, all persons shall be deemed and taken to be of full age for all purposes at the age of eighteen years.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 26.28 — Age of Majority
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Provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.015
Age of majority for enumerated specific purposes
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided under RCW 7.105.100, all persons shall be deemed and taken to be of full age for the specific purposes hereafter enumerated at the age of eighteen years:(1) To enter into any marriage contract without parental consent if otherwise qualified by law;(2) T…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.020
Married persons—When deemed of full age
All minor persons married to a person of full age shall be deemed and taken to be of full age.
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.030
Contracts of minors—Disaffirmance
A minor is bound, not only by contracts for necessaries, but also by his or her other contracts, unless he or she disaffirms them within a reasonable time after he or she attains his or her majority, and restores to the other party all money and property received by him or her by virtue of the contract, and remaining w…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.040
Disaffirmance barred in certain cases
No contract can be thus disaffirmed in cases where on account of the minor's own misrepresentations as to his or her majority, or from his or her having engaged in business as an adult, the other party had good reasons to believe the minor capable of contracting.
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.050
Satisfaction of minor's contract for services
When a contract for the personal services of a minor has been made with him or her alone, and those services are afterwards performed, payment made therefor to such minor in accordance with the terms of the contract, is a full satisfaction for those services, and the parents or guardian cannot recover therefor.
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.060
Child labor—Penalty
(1) Every person who shall employ, and every parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody or control of such child, who shall permit to be employed, by another, any child under the age of fourteen years at any labor whatever, in or in connection with any store, shop, factory, mine or any inside employment…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.070
Certain types of employment prohibited—Penalty
Every person who shall employ, or cause to be employed, exhibit or have in his or her custody for exhibition or employment any minor actually or apparently under the age of eighteen years; and every parent, relative, guardian, employer, or other person having the care, custody, or control of any such minor, who shall i…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.080
Selling or giving tobacco to minor—Belief of representative capacity, no defense—Penalty
(1) A person who sells or gives, or permits to be sold or given, to any person under the age of 21 years any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, tobacco in any form, alternative nicotine product, or a vapor product is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.(2) It is not a defense to a prosecution for a violation of th…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.085
Applying tattoo to a minor—Penalty
Every person who applies a tattoo to any minor under the age of eighteen is guilty of a misdemeanor. It is not a defense to a violation of this section that the person applying the tattoo did not know the minor's age unless the person applying the tattoo establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that he or she mad…
Wash. Rev. Code § 26.28.900
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person…