Rule 22.1 - Family Law Proceedings DefinedFamily 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.Adopted April 30, 2015, effective 7/1/2015.