Rule 22.1 Family Law Proceedings Defined
Title IV: Rules for Family Law Proceedings in District Courts, in the Family Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, and Proceedings in Juvenile and District Courts Pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act | Chapter 22: Application of Rules
Rule Text
Family law proceedings, for purposes of application of these Rules, are defined as:
(a) all family law actions that involve separation, divorce, or annulment proceedings, as well as all issues that are ancillary thereto;
(b) all child-related actions in marital and non-marital family law cases and all issues ancillary thereto, except as provided herein;
(c) all civil family law protective orders issued including actions filed pursuant to The Domestic Abuse Assistance Act, The Post-Separation Family Violence Relief Act, and Uniform Abuse Prevention Orders;
(d) all actions filed seeking to have a foreign judgment or order, or judgment or order of any other judicial district of this state, recognized and enforced that are described within these rules;
(e) the partition of and adjudication of issues arising from legal or contractual matrimonial regimes or from partly legal and partly contractual matrimonial regimes;
(f) other matters designated by law or court-specific rule as “family law proceedings”; and
(g) enforcement of orders in any of these matters, including the issue of contempt of court.
Amendment history: Adopted April 30, 2015, effective July 1, 2015.