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Definition of Domestic relations court

1. Noun. A court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Domestic Relations Court

Literary usage of Domestic relations court

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Working with the Courts in Child Protection by Jane N. Feller (1995)
"OVERVIEW OF THE domestic relations court PROCESS In addition to civil child protection proceedings and criminal actions, allegations of child abuse or ..."

2. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1915)
"All the provisions of this section shall apply so far as possible to any domestic relations court organized in any borough of the city of New York where no ..."

3. The Juvenile Court and the Community by Thomas Dawes Eliot (1914)
"... the work which is essentially the work of a domestic relations court, there is nothing left for a juvenile court as a tribunal for "juvenile offenders. ..."

4. Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith (1919)
"As to all proceedings after judgment in the domestic relations court the private attorney is obviously unnecessary, being entirely supplanted by the ..."

5. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"... its name to the Marion County Juvenile and domestic relations court because ... of case handled in a domestic relations court except divorce, alimony, ..."

6. House Bills of House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia for the by West Virginia, House of Delegates, Legislature (1921)
"The said judge of the domestic relations court of Cabell 2 county shall, for his services, receive the sum of three thousand 3 dollars per annum in monthly ..."

7. A Complete Encyclopedia of Virginia Law: Being a Concise But Complete by Samuel Need Hurst (1922)
"... preferably a person trained in the law, to be known as the judge of the juvenile and domestic relations court for such city or county, who shall hold ..."

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