wa-deadlines

name	wa-deadlines
title	Washington Case Deadlines
description	Use this skill whenever the user asks about timing or deadlines in a Washington civil case. Triggers include "when is my answer due", "when is the response brief due", "compute the deadline", "how many court days", "what's the reply deadline", "I was served — when do I have to answer", "when does my discovery response have to go out", "how long do I have to file a motion to vacate", "exemption claim deadline", "FDCPA statute of limitations", "is this deadline past". Computes court-day and calendar-day deadlines under CR 6 / CRLJ 6 using RCW 1.16.050 holidays (with Saturday→Friday / Sunday→Monday observed-day rule), and covers garnishment timing under RCW 6.27, post-judgment motion deadlines under CR 59 / CR 60 / RAP 5.2, and WA statutes of limitation at RCW 4.16. Deterministic date arithmetic is delegated to `scripts/case-calendar.py`, which is the **canonical source** for current day counts and holidays — this skill does NOT enumerate them. The substantive rules + RCW text live in `wa-law-references/references/court-rules/` and `wa-law-references/references/wa-rcw-debt/`.
author	codearranger
author_url	https://github.com/codearranger/claude-legal/tree/main/plugins/wa-court-docs/skills/wa-deadlines
license	MIT
version	0.1.0
execution_mode	open
jurisdiction	us
practice	litigation
language	en

Washington Case Deadlines

Compute and track deadlines for Washington civil cases. The agent should invoke this skill automatically when the user asks a timing question, without requiring an explicit command.

NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Court-rule day counts and statute-of- limitation periods are amended by court rule or by the Legislature; the canonical source for current values is scripts/case-calendar.py (encoded named rules) plus wa-law-references/references/court-rules/ (full rule text) plus wa-law-references/references/wa-rcw-debt/ (statute text). This skill describes the workflow; it does not embed the specific day counts.

How to answer a deadline question

1. Identify the triggering event. What happened? (e.g., "I was served on April 1", "the judge signed the order on March 15", "the garnishment writ was mailed yesterday").

2. Identify the rule. Name the controlling rule (CR 12(a), CRLJ 6(d), RCW 6.27, etc.) so the user knows what governs. If uncertain, read the rule text in wa-law-references/references/court-rules/.

3. Compute the date using the Python helper. The script encodes the current WA-state-holiday list (RCW 1.16.050 with the Saturday→Friday / Sunday→Monday observed-day shift) plus a catalog of named WA rules:

   python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/case-calendar.py" \
     --from 2026-06-03 \
     --days -3 \
     --mode court
   

   Flags:

   • --from YYYY-MM-DD — triggering date
   • --days N — offset (negative = before; positive = after)
   • --mode court|calendar — court-day counting (skips weekends
     • WA state holidays) or calendar-day counting
   • --rules — list the named rules the script knows about (use this to discover the current day count for a specific rule rather than relying on memory)

4. Report clearly. Give the date, the day of the week, whether any intervening holiday pushed the count, and the rule citation.

Optional — maintain a per-case calendar

If the user wants a tracked calendar for the case, store it at [case-folder]/CASE_CALENDAR.md with this shape:

# Case Calendar — [Case Name], Cause No. [number]

Court: [court]
Judge: [if known]
Defendant: [pro se]


 2025-01-15: Summons served on Defendant
 2025-02-14: Answer due (CR 12(a))
 2025-03-01: First Discovery Request served
 2025-03-31: Discovery responses due (CR 33/34)


 [x] 2025-02-14: Answer filed


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