court of domestic relations
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The Christmas basket, the $10 loan, the stay of eviction, the city job�all bought him votes, but also made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'"
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a one-man chamber of commerce and court of domestic relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was young and distinguished-looking, which probably accounted for the fact that his office had become a sort of fashionable court of domestic relations.
From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
It should be said that, after a separation, claims for non-payment of alimony cannot, in many states, be pressed in a court of domestic relations but must go to a civil court.
From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Colcord, Joanna C.
Court of Domestic Relations.—One of the most significant improvements that has taken place is the establishment of a court of domestic relations, which already exists in several cities, and has made an enviable record.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch
