NOUN
- a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children)
How To Use family court In A Sentence
- The Family Court is oriented to the long term and must take into account the likely future needs of the child.
- Of course, the chances of his being found guilty ( "adjudicated," in family court parlance) on all 41 charges are as likely as a mule's winning at Pimlico. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
- She and her lawyer have also filed suit in Family Court in San Diego to clear the way for the unborn babies to be put up for adoption.
- After the wife instituted proceedings in the Family Court, a share which was held by the husband in the trustee company, was transferred to the children of the marriage.
- Would the family courts get a better press if more open? Times, Sunday Times
- The times rang true except for Renee Butler, who'd put in a rugged April on trial in family court. LEGAL TENDER
- Historically the family courts have striven to find finality for divorcing couples.
- I am beginning to understand why so few journalists write about cases in the family courts. Times, Sunday Times
- And it's all going on largely unchallenged behind the sacred veil of secrecy that covers the family courts system. The Sun
- Instead, their argument boils down to the contention that the hospital should have gone to Family Court if it sought to override their decision.
