Improving the family court response to custody cases and parenting decisions involving domestic violence so that resulting parenting arrangements protect the emotional and physical well-being of victimized parents and their children.
Category: Child-related relief in protection orders
Cook County’s Domestic Violence Division is not a family court accustomed to making custody determinations, but instead a high-volume court hearing protection orders and domestic violence criminal matters....Read More
One challenge for Hennepin County was an inconsistency in the inclusion of child-related relief in orders for protection. After gathering information about the issue, the team developed a...Read More
Cook County differs from the other FCEP sites in that the court participating in the project is not a family court but a domestic violence court, so its...Read More