How to Use family court in a Sentence

family court

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  • She was charged in family court with one count of murder after Jonathan’s death.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Parents can often face custody or family court issues over a few grams of cannabis.
    — Chris Goldstein, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The program began two years ago in her courtroom, which is part of the second-largest family court in the United States.
    — Kim Bellware, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The cases involving the juveniles have been referred to family court.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Vanover, according to court statistics, has the highest workload of any of the state's 52 family court judges.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Hawaii: Ages 16 and 17 require written consent of both parents, guardian or family court.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In this city with a deep and proud relationship with football, a custody dispute has pushed the debate about the sport’s safety into a new arena: family court.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Citing the texts, Hunter could have asked the family court judge to revoke Rouin’s unsupervised visits, Raven said.
    — Stephen Magagnini, sacbee, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Switzer and Spreckman approached Sheindlin in the mid-90s and pitched the then-family court judge the idea of taking her career to television.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Three of the state's most overloaded family court divisions will each get one new judge to help with rising caseloads that include child abuse and neglect, custody, divorce and domestic violence.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The New York Times previously reported that as a child, Fitzgerald was sent to a reform school by a family court order.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Of his 22 years on the bench, Dwyer spent 12 in family court.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2019
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • In the spring of 2018, Moore went to family court to establish his legal rights to custody of the child.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2019
  • The case will be addressed through the family court system.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • And my mom was a prison guard and my dad was a family court probation guy.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2018
  • The evidence showed, and the family court agreed, that Pamela was involved in the plan or plot to attack and kill Michael.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
    — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The family court battle only came to an end with his death.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 May 2023
  • In the mid-1990s, Switzer and Spreckman were the ones to approach Sheindlin with the idea that the then-family court judge should take her career to television.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The problem is that the family court's ruling extends only to Wang and Chen.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • Ryan Crawford, the child's father, had fought for years for custody of the boy but failed to convince family court judges that his son was healthy.
    — Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • On Thursday, the latest episode played out at a hearing behind closed doors at a family court in Tel Aviv.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The turning point was fighting for my sons in the family court system, and seeing how much money that took.
    — Charlotte Cowles, New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Hall said he's served for the past seven years as a mediator in family court.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • And while the matter wends its way through family court, Johnny has primary custody of the boys.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • Courts restrict a child’s access to a fit parent in family court for the flimsiest of reasons, and get away with it.
    — Molly K. Olson, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Dear Dad: The best way to apply for parenting-time is through your local family court.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Many family court sessions are closed to the public, and cases that aren’t appealed—which is most of them—don’t make it into the public record.
    — Kathryn Joyce, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • So the immigration clinic collaborates with the family court clinic at the law school.
    — Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2024

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