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Washington: the debt research

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S_WA-P20-C010 · captured 2026-10-29

CR 36 permits requests concerning facts, opinions/application of law to fact, and document genuineness within CR 26(b), for the pending action.

Conditions and limits: Copies accompany genuineness requests unless previously supplied or available as specified.

Recorded check: selected text predicate checked all other history construction application held

S020(a); S022(b)

Source links: www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov

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S_WA-P20-C011 · captured 2026-10-29

A CR 36 matter is admitted on the rule’s conditions and conclusively established unless withdrawal/amendment is permitted under (b).

Conditions and limits: Merits/prejudice criteria and CR 16 qualification remain; effect is confined to the pending action.

Recorded check: selected text predicate checked all other history construction application held

S020(a)–(b)

Source links: www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov

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S_WA-P20-C012 · captured 2026-10-29

A CR 36 response must address the matter or give a proper objection; asserted inability requires reasonable inquiry and insufficient known/readily obtainable information.

Conditions and limits: A genuine trial issue alone is not the specified basis for objection.

Recorded check: selected text predicate checked all other history construction application held

S020(a)

Source links: www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov

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S_WA-P20-C025 · captured 2026-10-29

GR 30’s multiple-signature routes distinguish electronic signatures, complete signature-page inclusion, and authorized signing of nonperjury documents.

Conditions and limits: Retention qualification C106; no operational signing permission.

Recorded check: selected text predicate checked all other history construction application held

S026(d)(2); S107 attachment

Source links: www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov · www.courts.wa.gov

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S_WApass-03-citation-01

SWA correction of the C070 coverage pinpoint

Inside: 1. Source and usage register · 3. Old-versus-new patch table · 5. Source-version and quantity-or-unchanged table

6 tables6 claim records3 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-03-citation-02

SWA exact original-row completion

Inside: 1. Source and usage register · 2. Corrected claim table · 3. Complete old/new patch table

7 tables3 claim records4 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-18-limited-01

Two bounded source corrections

Inside: Two bounded source corrections · 1. Exact replacement claim table · 2. Necessary cross-reference patch table

7 tables2 claim records4 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-29
S_WApass-19-limited-01

1. Exact two-cell replacements

Inside: 1. Exact two-cell replacements · 2. Minimal source and claim traceability · 4. Actual read/failure log and version limits

4 tables2 claim records1 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-29
S_WApass-01

Washington provider market access and consumer fees

Inside: Washington provider market access and consumer fees · 1. What Washington classifies as debt adjustment · Conduct controls the classification

9 tables40 claim records30 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-23
S_WApass-02

Remaining fee interactions and patches to

Inside: Remaining fee interactions and patches to PASS-01 · A. Substantive findings · 1. Initial $25, the payment cap, cumulative retention, and a small first payment

8 tables19 claim records13 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-23
S_WApass-03

Generic limitation periods, accrual, acknowledgment, payment and revival

Inside: Generic limitation periods, accrual, acknowledgment, payment and revival · How to read the registers · 1.1 Ordinary contracts, accounts, sales and leases

18 tables98 claim records45 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-04

SWA Washington generic civil debt-action framework

Inside: 1. Reading conventions and authority boundaries · Authority and procedural-category comparison · 2.1 Courts, jurisdiction, venue, and procedural tracks

17 tables103 claim records112 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-05

SWA Washington ordinary civil earnings garnishment

Inside: Reading conventions · A1. Legal categories, jurisdictional predicates, and authority levels · A2. Symbolic wage relations and adopted rate references

23 tables84 claim records39 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-06

Washington non-earnings bank/deposit garnishment, account protections, and exemption process

Inside: Washington non-earnings bank/deposit garnishment, account protections, and exemption process · Reading and citation conventions · 1.1 What each authority governs

26 tables91 claim records31 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-07

Washington homestead and ordinary nonwage, nondeposit property exemptions from execution

Inside: Washington homestead and ordinary nonwage, nondeposit property exemptions from execution · Reading conventions · 1.1 The principal distinctions

16 tables120 claim records29 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-08

Washington nonjudicial deed-of-trust foreclosure, residential presale protections, cure, sale, postponement, and deficiency boundaries

Inside: Washington nonjudicial deed-of-trust foreclosure, residential presale protections, cure, sale, postponement, and deficiency boundaries · 1. Reading conventions and authority boundaries · Authority and category comparison

21 tables94 claim records27 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-09

Judicial mortgage foreclosure, judicial sale, redemption, deficiency, and debt/security boundaries

Inside: Judicial mortgage foreclosure, judicial sale, redemption, deficiency, and debt/security boundaries · Reading conventions · A. Judicial-route gateway, instruments, actors, parties, and proof — Questions 1–2

18 tables106 claim records54 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-10

Washington Article 9A: default, possession, disposition, redemption, surplus, deficiency, and bounded remedies

Inside: Washington Article 9A: default, possession, disposition, redemption, surplus, deficiency, and bounded remedies · Reading conventions · 1. Material category, actor, authority, and event comparisons

20 tables111 claim records72 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-11

SWA Washington consumer credit sales and retail installment obligations

Inside: 1. Principal findings · Identifier convention · 2. Material legal-category and authority comparisons

18 tables81 claim records45 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-12

SWA Consumer personal-property leases and rental-purchase agreements

Inside: 1. Substantive findings by requested question · Question 1 — Governing regimes and classification · Question 2 — Agreement, disclosure, writing, and prohibited terms

15 tables112 claim records31 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-13

SWA Residential rent arrears, nonpayment termination, deposits, and the summary-possession interface

Inside: Reading conventions · 1. Material category and authority comparisons · B. Rent increases, nonwaiver, and dishonored-payment boundaries

17 tables118 claim records99 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-14

SWA Regulated residential electricity and natural-gas arrears, disconnection and restoration

Inside: Reading key and limits · 1.1 Statutes: instruments, literal URLs and read bounds · 1.2 Administrative-code instruments and section-by-section usage

19 tables114 claim records19 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-15

SWA Hospital charity care, medical billing, and medical-debt collection

Inside: 1. Material legal-category and actor comparisons · 2A. Current codified operative sources · 2B. Adopted originals, federal poverty publication, interpretation, and status sources

19 tables112 claim records41 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-16

Washington student-loan servicing and borrower protection

Inside: Washington student-loan servicing and borrower protection · 1. Material category and authority comparisons · Reading and identification conventions

18 tables120 claim records22 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-17

SWA Washington small-loan / payday / deferred-deposit component

Inside: 1. Reading conventions and evidentiary status · A. Category, actor, exemption, and territorial boundaries · B. License, endorsement, limited-agent, and financial-security structure

29 tables141 claim records134 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-28
S_WApass-18

Ordinary nonmortgage Consumer Loan Act origination, pricing, agreement, payment, prepayment, refinancing and refund

Inside: Ordinary nonmortgage Consumer Loan Act origination, pricing, agreement, payment, prepayment, refinancing and refund · Reading conventions · 2. Atomic consequential claim ledger

23 tables122 claim records78 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-29
S_WApass-19

Washington residential real-property tax arrears, relief, deferral, exemption and tax-foreclosure boundaries

Inside: Washington residential real-property tax arrears, relief, deferral, exemption and tax-foreclosure boundaries · 2. Source and usage ledger · Reading conventions

24 tables120 claim records82 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-29
S_WApass-20

Ordinary contested civil debt proof in Washington

Inside: Ordinary contested civil debt proof in Washington · 1.2 Assertions, admissions, affidavits, and declarations · 1.3 Documentary and electronic proof

21 tables165 claim records123 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-29
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