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Family Court Division operations and statistics
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The Family Court Division, the second largest division in the Law Department, handles a significant prosecutorial practice with a dual mission in juvenile justice and interstate child support.
- The division acts as the presentment agency for all juvenile justice, adolescent offender, and interstate child support cases in New York City Family Courts.
- It balances the rehabilitative mandate of the Family Court Act with the need to protect crime victims and ensure community safety.
- Family court attorneys work in approximately 30 locations, 365 days and nights a year, including holidays.
Muriel Goode-Trufant
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Its mission is twofold, through juvenile justice and interstate child support.
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We are the presentment agency for all juvenile justice, adolescent offender, and interstate child support cases referred to the New York City Family Courts.
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Under the rehabilitative mandate of the Family Court Act, the family court division must work to achieve outcomes that serve the needs of each individual youth brought before the court while at the same time protecting the interest of crime victims and ensuring the safety of the community at large.
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Our family court attorneys work in approximately 30 locations, three hundred and sixty five days and nights a year, including nights, weekends, and holiday operations.