How to Use family court in a Sentence

family court

noun

• 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
• She was charged in family court with one count of murder after Jonathan’s death.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 6 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The killing occurred just two months after the pair settled a custody battle in Broward family court.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Dawn Gentry is still fighting to keep her job as a family court judge in Kenton County.
  — Julia Fair, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2020
• Jasmine filed a complaint with the child welfare agency, and a family court trial was held.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Postle was still tangling with his ex-wife in family court when his heater at Stones began in July 2018.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• Bisig defeated Jason Bowman, a family court lawyer, with 80% of the votes.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2022
• The suspect, who is being tried in family court because of his age, faces charges of murder in the second degree and robbery in the first degree.
  — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Even among those investigations that ACS does find enough evidence of child maltreatment, few lead to a case filed in family court.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024