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PUBLIC LAW 88-241-DEC. 23, 1963 Subchapter II—Officers and Employees

§ 11-1121. Clerk and other personnel The judges of the Domestic Relations Branch, with the approval of the chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, may appomt and remove a clerk and such other personnel as may be necessary for the operation of the Branch. § 11-1122. Duties of clerk regarding docket The clerk serving in the Domestic Relations Branch of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions shall keep a separate docket for the Branch, in which he shall record the steps taken at each stage of actions or proceedings instituted or conducted, in the Branch. Subchapter III—Jurisdiction § 11-1141. Exclusive jurisdiction (a) The Domestic Relations Branch of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions and each judge sitting therein has exclusive jurisdiction of: (1) actions for divorce from the bond of marriage and legal separation from bed and board, including proceedings incidental thereto for alimony, pendente lite and permanent, and for support and custody of minor children; (2) applications for revocation of divorce from bed and board; (3) civil actions to enforce support of minor children; (4) civil actions to enforce support of wife; (5) actions seeking custody of minor children; (6) actions to declare marriages void; (7) actions to declare marriages valid: (8) actions for annulments of marriage; (9) determinations and adjudications of property rights, both real and personal, in any action hereinabove referred to in this section, irrespective of any jurisdictional limitation imposed on the Court of General Sessions; (10) proceedings in adoption; and (11) proceedings under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, chapter 3 of Title 30. (b) This chapter does not affect or diminish the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, or of any judge presiding therein. Subchapter IV—Miscellaneous Provisions § 11-1161. Powers of Branch The Domestic Relations Branch of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions has all of the legal and equitable powers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, chapters 3 and 9 of Title 16, chapters 1 and 3 of Title 30, and section 3^786, including but not limited to, the power to: (1) issue restraining orders and injunctions, writs of habeas corpus and ne exeat, and all other writs, orders, and decrees; and (2) enforce and execute its judgmehts, ordeibs, and decrees.

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