• Orders and Forms
• Family Court Components
• Family Court Central Intake Center
• Family Court Self-Help Center
• Domestic Relations Branch
    Marriage Bureau

• Juvenile and Neglect Branch
• Paternity and Child Support Branch
• Mental Health and Mental Retardation Branch
• Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect Branch

Family Court Operations Division Components

The Family Court Operations Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is divided into six branches:

1. Family Court Central Intake Center (CIC) is the single location for filing new and subsequent pleadings in all Family Court cases. Fees associated with those filings are also assessed and collected by the staff of the CIC.
2. Domestic Relations Branch has responsibility for cases involving divorce, legal separation, annulment, child custody, habeas corpus, and adoption.
3. Juvenile and Neglect Branch handles cases involving juvenile delinquency, child abuse and neglect.
4. Paternity and Child Support Branch processes cases where parties seek to determine paternity, establish child support, and enforce wage withholding.
5. Marriage Bureau approves and/or disapproves applications for issuance of marriage licenses, maintains all records of marriages performed in the District of Columbia, and approves and/or disapproves applications to perform marriage ceremonies in the District of Columbia by authorized ministers and other individuals.
6. Mental Health and Mental Retardation Branch handles the processing of matters relating to the hospitalization and continued treatment of persons adjudicated as mentally retarded or in need of mental health services.
7. Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect Branch is responsible for the determination of party eligibility for court appointed counsel in child abuse and neglect proceedings and processes the appointment of attorneys for parties in these cases.
   
8. Family Court Self Help Center provides legal information and assistance to self-represented parties in Family Court Cases.
   
9. The Family Treatment Court created as a result of a partnership between the Family Court and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth, Families, and Elders, in cooperation with key District health and human services stakeholders, is a court supervised, voluntary, comprehensive residential substance abuse treatment program for mothers/female caretakers whose children are the subject of a child neglect case.