Court Activity:

 

The statistics are new petitions and supplements to existing petitions.  An example of a petition would be a request for custody of a child; an example of a supplement would be a request to change the amount of time one parent could spend with a child.

 

Year:         1991    1992    1993    1994    1995    1996    1997    1998    1999    2000    2001    2002  

 

Orange      12,662    13,748    13,749    12,516    12,925    13,325    12,810    12,319    14,055    12,616    13,682    13,758

 

Rockland     7,540     7,691      6,923     6,923      7,055     7,625     7,556     7,852      8,396     8,059     7,753      7,778

 

Dutchess     9,519    9,896     10,248     9,974     9,915    10,922    11,374    11,496    11,690       11,539   12,097    13,163

 

Ulster           7,221    6,758      6,236     6,067     6,609     6,440     7,168      7,183     7,230        7,060     7,676     8,786

 

Sullivan          4,930    5,248     4,789     4,471      4,993     5,413     4,969      5,237    5,404       5,107      4,395     4,616