Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Washington

Re: civil

All actions in courts in the United States fall into a few categories: criminal and civil being the two largest categories (precisely the limits of a civil suit may vary from state to state) so it may be generally said that anything that is filed in a court that is not a criminal suit is a civil suit. The hazy edges of the civil suit category are: probate (including guardianships, trust, estate of deceased, adoption, all of which are at least potentially non-contested actions where the action is not to prove a wrong done by one to another, but to find the best interst of the party to be protected, in other states (Delaware comes to mind these types of cases are handled by a Chancery (Equity) Court and the judge is called the Chancellor) there may be other hazy areas in other states, but even these actions are generally governed by the states Rules of Civil Procedure (so they for having no defendant/respondent are still civil suits. Do understand that, what a civil suit is has little to do with Civil Rights Law (that is merely one category or wrongs that includes less than 1% of cases within the category of civil suit). The two largest categories of civil suits are negligence suits and divorce suits (in Washington called dissolution of marriage). If you use this in a school paper, please credit me.