Where may a juvenile protection case be heard, and which part of the court does that case belong to?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read where the juvenile's act occurred, where the juvenile lives and where the juvenile is now, since each of these places is named in the provision, and we check which court's juvenile division received the papers.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the three places as alternatives: venue over a juvenile protection case lies where the juvenile's act took place, where the juvenile resides or where the juvenile is currently located, so any one of those places is enough, and the case then belongs to a juvenile division of the family court or of the district court.
Another reading notes that the provision names two possible courts without saying how the choice between a juvenile division of the family court and a juvenile division of the district court is made, so the text alone does not settle which of the two should hear a given case.
Your judgment
If the act occurred in one place and the juvenile has since moved, how should the papers show which venue was used and who decided it?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the provision is amended to change the places that fix venue or the division the case belongs to, or if a court decision explains how a case is allocated between the juvenile division of the family court and that of the district court.