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What does the domestic relations exception keep federal courts from hearing?

Family cases.

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Why: Federal courts decline family cases under the domestic relations exception.

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Federal courts leave family matters to the states.
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Answer: Family cases. Federal courts decline family cases under the domestic relations exception.

  1. Law of the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States
    federal courts decline to hear family cases under the "domestic relations exception"
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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