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Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintiff came into court with "clean hands" and the request was reasonable, "quantum meruit". Changes in laws ...
The Family Justice System of England and Wales is a branch of the Courts of England and Wales that deals with disputes within families through Family law. [1] Disputes are resolved in the family magistrates court and in the Family Division of the High Court . [ 2 ]
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A County Court hearing is presided over by either a district or circuit judge and, except in a small minority of cases such as civil actions against the police, the judge sits alone as a trier of fact and law without assistance from a jury. The old county courts' divorce and family jurisdiction was passed on 22 April 2014 to the single Family ...
Family Court of Australia; Family Court of Western Australia; Family Court (Hong Kong) Hawaii State Family Courts; Family Court (Ireland) Family Court (England and Wales) Family Courts Act 1980 of New Zealand; New York Family Court; Philadelphia Family Court; Family Court Building located in Philadelphia and formerly housed the Philadelphia ...
The Family Court of Western Australia was established by the Family Court Act 1975 (WA). [a] In the second reading speech of the 1975 bill the Minister for Works, Des O'Neil, referred to a number of reasons the Western Australian Government preferred to keep a state-based family court (rather than referring family law matters to a Commonwealth ...
Family proceedings courts must be made up of three magistrates from the family panel and include a man and a woman, unless this is impracticable, when a minimum of two is allowed. A family proceedings court may comprise a district judge as chairman and one or two lay justices who are members of the family panel.