IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON DIVISION ONE In the Matter of the Marriage of ) No. 81236-0-I ) BEILEI GUO, ) ) DIVISION ONE Respondent, ) ) and ) ) JIE REN, ) UNPUBLISHED OPINION ) Appellant. ) ) VERELLEN, J. — Under RCW 26.09.191(2)(a)(iii), a trial court can limit a parent’s residential time due to a history of domestic violence. Because substantial evidence establishes that Jie Ren physically abused his former wife, Beilei Guo, makes ongoing threats to her, suffers decompensating mental health because of a delusional disorder, lacks anger management, and causes Guo and his two daughters to fear him, the court did not abuse its discretion in entering a parenting plan restricting his residential time. Ren fails to establish the trial court abused its discretion or denied due process in its management of the trial, or erred in its division of property. Therefore, we affirm. No. 81236-0-I/2 FACTS On February 21, 2004, Jie Ren married Beilei Guo in Shanghai, China. Before moving to the United States, Ren physically abused Guo twice. In 2013, Ren, Guo, and their two daughters moved to Bellevue, Washington. On October 10, 2018, Guo filed for divorce. Jude McNeil, a parenting plan evaluator and guardian ad litem, was appointed to make recommendations to the court as to the parenting plan and Ren’s mental health. That November, Guo moved into an apartment with their two daughters and obtained a temporary domestic violence protection order (DVPO) against Ren. In December, Ren was arrested for violating the temporary DVPO when he attempted to pick up one of his daughters from the bus stop. After the temporary orders were entered, Ren’s mental health deteriorated. Ren kept guns “everywhere” in the house.1 Ren sent Guo threatening messages, including that he would “never let her go,” that he would “come to find” her, and that he found a cemetery for her body.2 Ren called himself an “amazing American superhero” and “God’s messenger.”3 In January 2019, the trial court ordered a one-year DVPO that suspended Ren’s visitation with his daughters and entered an order to surrender weapons. Ren surrendered 22 guns and 33 knives to the Bellevue Police Department. 1 Report of Proceedings (RP) (Oct. 24, 2019) at 583. 2 Id. at 594-96. 3 Clerk’s Papers at 336-37. 2 No. 81236-0-I/3 McNeil referred Ren to Dr. Yie-Wen Kuan for psychological testing. Dr. Kuan, a native Mandarin speaker and an immigrant from Taiwan, evaluated Ren and diagnosed him with a persecutory type of delusional disorder. After a six-day bench trial, the trial court entered oral findings and conclusions, which were later supplemented by written findings of fact and conclusions of law. Based upon the recommendations of McNeil and Dr. Kuan, the court entered a phased parenting plan, allowing Ren to begin limited daytime residential visits upon completing six months of treatment if the psychiatrist recommends visits and confirms the visits pose no safety threat to his daughters.4 The plan provides that a post-decree guardian ad litem …
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