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Records of the Family Court
Catalogue reference: Division within J
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Division within J
Records of the Family Court relating to jurisdiction over family law and children. Family Court Judgments are in J 350.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within J
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Family Court
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2014-2022
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Family Court relating to jurisdiction over family law and children.
Family Court Judgments are in J 350.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Family Division of the High Court and its predecessors, see
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Family Court, 2014-2022
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 series
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- Topics
- Children
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The single Family Court was created by the Crime and Courts Act 2013. It came into existence on 22 April 2014 and replaced the previous system of family jurisdiction being divided between magistrates' courts, county courts and the High Court.
The Family Court handles:
parental disputes over the upbringing of children; local authority intervention to protect children; decrees relating to divorce or the dissolution of a civil partnership; financial support for children after divorce or relationship breakdown; some aspects of domestic violence; adoption, special guardianship, and surrogacy; forced marriage protection; female genital mutilation protection.The Family Court judiciary is made up of lay magistrates, District Judge (Magistrates Court), District Judges, Circuit Judges and High Court Judges. The court is based on 43 local centres (each presided over by a ?Designated Family Judge?) and at the Royal Courts of Justice. Magistrates undergo specialist training before they sit in the Family Court, where procedures are very different from the criminal courts.
The Family Court is distinct from the Family Division of the High Court. Judges in the Family Division can hear appeals from the Family Court.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17670675/
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