King County Superior Court · 2012–2022
Divorce in King County, by the numbers
Every dissolution filed in 2021 and 2022 — 5,063 and 5,004 — the only two years the court record captures completely. Behind them: 30,274 cases and 76,184 filed documents spanning eleven years, every figure on this page traceable to a published file.
Honesty section
What this data cannot tell you
The extract records which documents were filed and when — not what is inside them. Four obvious questions are unanswerable from it, and rather than guess, we say so. Each would need a further records pull from King County.
How much child support?
No dollar amounts exist anywhere in the extract. We can say a support order was entered — 84.4% of comparable cases — but never for how much. A second pull would need the orders' contents.
What do parenting plans say?
Plan contents are not in the record we have — only the motions and orders around them: relocation notices, objections, modification motions. Custody splits and schedules would need the plans themselves.
Who files first?
Case captions carry surnames only. The petitioner is listed first, but with no gender, age, or any party attribute, "who files" cannot be answered. Party-level data would need petition records.
Where? ZIP or city?
The extract contains no addresses of any kind, so nothing here can be broken out by ZIP code, city, or neighborhood. Geography would need party address fields, aggregated for privacy.