D.C. Family Court: Operations and Case Management Have Improved, but Critical Issues Remain

April 23, 2004 D.C. Family Court: Operations and Case Management Have Improved, but Critical Issues Remain The Family Court met timeframes for transferring cases and decreased the timeframes for resolving abuse and neglect cases. As of October 2003, only 34 of the approximately 3,500 cases that were to be transferred to the Family Court from other divisions of the Superior Court remained outside the Family Court. For children removed from their homes, the median days to begin disposition hearings declined by 202 days to 39 days, or about 84 percent between 2001 and 2003. However, the Family Court . . .