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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
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