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Updated: 
December 15, 2023

What do I have to prove to get a vulnerable adult protection order?

To get a vulnerable adult protection order, you must show that a vulnerable adult has been abandoned, abused, financially exploited, neglected, or threatened with any of these things by the respondent.1 Each of these terms are defined in What are the legal definitions of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect?

1 R.C.W. §§ 7.105.100(1)(d); 74.34.110