domestic relations court
- noun
- /dəˈmɛstɪk rɪˈleɪʃənz kɔrt/
- Formal
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tribunal de relaciones familiares
- She recalls a judge in the California court system recently describing 10 days spent handling a $100,000 commercial dispute; during the same period, a judge in a typical domestic relations court in California would be expected to process 1,000 cases involving children.
Examples
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The most noted empirical study was conducted in 1990 in the domestic relations court in Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix, with funding from the ABA.
Academic text (2001) -
"The ultimate goal of our project is to have the video, related handbook, and training materials available to all divorce litigants when children are involved in the domestic relations courts in the state of Arkansas," wrote Mark Hodge in submitting the section's application for the award.
Academic text (2004) -
The domestic relations court handles cases involving child custody and visitation rights.
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In Louisiana, the domestic relations court primarily deals with divorce and family law matters.
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The judge in the domestic relations court made a ruling on the custody arrangement for the children.
Synonyms
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1.4
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
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3.0
A court that deals with family problems like divorce and child custody
A court that deals with family matters like custody, divorce, and child support
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: a B1 learner who knows 'domestic' (family/home), 'relations' (relationships between people), and 'court' (legal forum) can infer it refers to a court handling family or domestic relationship matters. This follows a common noun-compounding pattern (akin to 'family court') and is cross-linguistically regular, so the meaning is readily derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Domestic relations court comes from the word domestic, meaning 'home', and relations, meaning 'family ties'. Imagine a judge who hears problems from the family home, and that is why the name means a court that deals with 'family' and child matters.