Family Proceedings

Family proceedings in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of family proceedings.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• family proceedings in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• family proceedings in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Family Proceedings

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Family Proceedings : All court proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court that deal with matters relating to the *welfare of children. Before 1989 the court’s powers to make orders concerning children varied, depending on the level of the court and the proceedings involved. The Children Act 1989, together with the Family Proceedings Rules 1991, rationalized the court’s powers and created a unified structure of the High Court, county courts, and magistrates’ courts. The ambit of family proceedings is very wide, including proceedings for *divorce, domestic violence (See battered spouse or cohabitant), children in care (See care order), *adoption, and *wardship and applications for a parental order under section 30 of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act 1990 (See section 30 order).