My question involves a child custody case from the State of: WA
A brief background as I am the step-parent not a biological parent.
Not sure if it matters, but parents were never married.
My wife has been the custodial guardian of her 3 and a half year old daughter for the entirety of the child's life. Father had visitation (no order was set for or against) two evenings a week and every other Saturday. No overnight visits ever took place.
My wife and I have known eachother for over 10 years and I am a member of the US Army. We recently married and she will be moving with the child to Florida state in August this year.
We supplied all the documentation to the courts and to the father, which then gave him 20 days to respond to the courts...in which he failed to do and so we submitted a motion to default which was signed as a temporary order. We were notified that we simply need to provide an Administrative order that child support was being paid before the courts would sign the final order.
We recently (yesterday) found out that he has hired a lawyer. We don't know what he is planning to do or anything else for that matter. I am really just looking for insight as to what I may expect.
Yes we are getting the child support paperwork to the courts today for the final order to be signed (unless we need to set a court date for that).

