How to Use family court in a Sentence

family court

noun
  • Has ‘parental alienation’ played a role in your family court case?
    — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
  • And my mom was a prison guard and my dad was a family court probation guy.
    — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • In most cases, it should be mailed directly to the family court.
    — Christian Dashiell, Parents, 29 July 2024
  • She was charged in family court with one count of murder after Jonathan’s death.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Of his 22 years on the bench, Dwyer spent 12 in family court.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2019
  • Hall said he's served for the past seven years as a mediator in family court.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Parents can often face custody or family court issues over a few grams of cannabis.
    — Chris Goldstein, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Fahnestock noted that the garden space could be used by those working in family courts.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Jasmine filed a complaint with the child welfare agency, and a family court trial was held.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Regular family courts aren’t built to cope with the type or the volume of cases that now are coming before them.
    — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 25 May 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
  • Grieper is the supervisor for case managers in the circuit’s family court.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • And while the matter wends its way through family court, Johnny has primary custody of the boys.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • The killing occurred just two months after the pair settled a custody battle in Broward family court.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • Guardians ad litem are appointed in both dependency and family court.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2026
  • The problem is that the family court's ruling extends only to Wang and Chen.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • An arrest also puts the youth under the jurisdiction of the family courts.
    — Gina Barton, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2023
  • If charges do follow, Johnson said, they will be handed down through family court, which could take several weeks.
    — Ilana Arougheti june 10, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Saenz doesn’t understand how the family court system could decide her children are better off without her.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Dawn Gentry is still fighting to keep her job as a family court judge in Kenton County.
    — Julia Fair, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Elected in 2022, Claustro served in the family court.
    — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This evidence points to family court proceedings as a place where interventions could work.
    — Kathryn Spearman, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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