District Of Columbia Code — 16
Browse 682 sections in division 16 of the District Of Columbia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 16-101. Parties.
- § 16-301. Jurisdiction; rules.
- § 16-302. Persons who may adopt.
- § 16-303. Persons adopted.
- § 16-304. Consent; exceptions.
- § 16-305. Petition for adoption.
- § 16-306. Notice of adoption proceedings.
- § 16-307. Investigation, report, and recommendation.
- § 16-308. Investigations when prospective adoptee is adult or petitioner is spouse or domestic partner of natural parent.
- § 16-309. Adoption proceedings.
- § 16-310. Finality of decrees of adoption.
- § 16-311. Sealing and inspection of records and papers.
- § 16-312. Legal effects of adoption.
- § 16-313. Child as including adopted person.
- § 16-314. Birth certificates.
- § 16-315. Prior proceedings.
- § 16-316. Appointment and compensation of counsel; guardian ad litem.
- § 16-317. Recognition of foreign adoptions and elective petitions for District adoption.
- § 16-401. Definitions.
- § 16-402. Prohibitions and penalties.
- § 16-501. Attachment before judgment; affidavit and bond.
- § 16-502. Service of notice; publication.
- § 16-503. Attachment for debts not due.
- § 16-504. Additional attachments.
- § 16-505. Sufficiency of plaintiff’s bond.
- § 16-506. Traversing affidavits; quashing writ of attachment; trial of issues.
- § 16-507. Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities.
- § 16-508. Attachment of real property.
- § 16-509. Attachment of personal property; undertaking by defendant or person in possession.
- § 16-510. Release of property or credits from attachment; sufficiency of undertaking.
- § 16-511. Attachment of credits or partnership interest; retention of property or credits by garnishee.
- § 16-512. Attachment and levy upon wages of nonresident.
- § 16-513. Advance payment of wages to avoid attachment or garnishment.
- § 16-514. Credits or property held for two or more persons or in representative capacity.
- § 16-515. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal.
- § 16-516. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator.
- § 16-517. Attachment of other property in replevin action.
- § 16-518. Preservation of property; sale; receiver.
- § 16-519. Defenses by garnishee.
- § 16-520. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues.
- § 16-521. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination.
- § 16-522. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee.
- § 16-523. Claims to attached property.
- § 16-524. Judgment generally; condemnation of attached property.
- § 16-525. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order.
- § 16-526. Judgment against garnishee.
- § 16-527. Judgment in case of undertaking for retention of property or credits.
- § 16-528. Judgment protects garnishee.
- § 16-529. Attachment in actions for fraudulent conveyances.
- § 16-530. Time for trial of issues.
- § 16-531. Attachment dockets; index of attachments.
- § 16-532. Other remedies of judgment creditor.
- § 16-533. Attachment proceedings in Superior Court.
- § 16-541. Definition and applicability.
- § 16-542. Issuance of attachment after judgment; costs.
- § 16-543. Revival of judgment unnecessary.
- § 16-544. Property subject to attachment.
- § 16-545. Multiple attachments against same judgment debtor.
- § 16-546. Attachments of credits.
- § 16-547. Retention of property or credits by garnishee.
- § 16-548. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal.
- § 16-549. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator.
- § 16-550. Preservation of property; sale.
- § 16-551. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues.
- § 16-552. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination.
- § 16-553. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee.
- § 16-554. Claims to attached property.
- § 16-555. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order.
- § 16-556. Judgment against garnishee.
- § 16-571. Definitions.
- § 16-571.01. Enforcement of support orders by attachment or garnishment.
- § 16-572. Attachment of wages; percentage limitations; priority of attachments.
- § 16-573. Employer’s duty to withhold and make payments; percentage.
- § 16-574. Judgment creditor to file receipts, in court, of amount collected.
- § 16-575. Judgment against employer-garnishee for failure to pay percentages.
- § 16-576. Lapse of attachment upon resignation or dismissal of employee.
- § 16-577. Applicability of per centum limitations to judgment for support.
- § 16-578. Superior Court judgments; lapse; validity.
- § 16-579. Payments by employer-garnishee where employee has no salary or salary inadequate for services rendered.
- § 16-580. Quashing attachment where judgment obtained to hinder just claims.
- § 16-581. Rules of procedure.
- § 16-582. Attachments to which this subchapter is applicable.
- § 16-583. No garnishment before judgment.
- § 16-584. No discharge from employment for garnishment.
- § 16-601. Undertaking in lieu of fiduciary’s bond.
- § 16-701. Rules and regulations.
- § 16-702. Prosecution by indictment or information.
- § 16-703. Process of Criminal Division; fees.
- § 16-704. Bail; collateral security.
- § 16-705. Jury trial; trial by court.
- § 16-706. Enforcement of judgments; commitment upon non-payment of fine.
- § 16-707. Disposition of fines.
- § 16-708. Penalties for wrongful conversion of forfeitures and fines.
- § 16-709. Executions on forfeited recognizances and judgments.
- § 16-710. Suspension of imposition or execution of sentence.
- § 16-711. Restitution or reparation.
- § 16-711.01. Restitution or reparation — Enforcement.
- § 16-712. Community service.
- § 16-713. Alien sentencing.
- § 16-801. Definitions.
- § 16-802. Sealing of criminal records on grounds of actual innocence.
- § 16-803. Sealing of public criminal records in other cases.
- § 16-804. Motion to seal.
- § 16-805. Review by Court.
- § 16-806. Availability of sealed records.
- § 16-807. Savings provision.
- § 16-831.01. Definitions.
- § 16-831.02. Action for custody of child by a third party.
- § 16-831.03. Action for custody of a child by a de facto parent.
- § 16-831.04. Third-party custody orders.
- § 16-831.05. Parental presumption.
- § 16-831.06. Award of custody to third party.
- § 16-831.07. Findings necessary to rebut the parental presumption by clear and convincing evidence.
- § 16-831.08. Factors to consider in determining best interests of child.
- § 16-831.09. Pendente lite relief.
- § 16-831.10. Effect of a third-party custody order.
- § 16-831.11. Modification or termination of orders.
- § 16-831.12. Jurisdiction.
- § 16-831.13. Other actions for custody not abolished, diminished, or preempted.
- § 16-901. Definitions.
- § 16-902. Residency requirements.
- § 16-903. Decree annulling marriage.
- § 16-904. Grounds for divorce, legal separation, and annulment.
- § 16-905. Revocation and enlargement of decree of legal separation.
- § 16-906. Causes for absolute divorce arising after decree for separation.
- § 16-907. Parent and child relationship defined.
- § 16-908. Relationship not dependent on marriage or domestic partnership.
- § 16-909. Proof of child’s relationship to parents.
- § 16-909.01. Establishment of paternity by voluntary acknowledgment and based on genetic test results.
- § 16-909.02. Full faith and credit to parentage determinations by other states.
- § 16-909.03. Voluntary paternity acknowledgment program for birthing hospitals.
- § 16-909.04. Voluntary paternity acknowledgment program for birth records agency.
- § 16-909.05. Mayor authorized to designate other sites for paternity acknowledgment program.
- § 16-910. Assignment and equitable distribution of property.
- § 16-911. Pendente lite relief.
- § 16-912. Permanent alimony; enforcement.
- § 16-913. Alimony.
- § 16-914. Custody of children.
- § 16-914.01. Retention of jurisdiction as to alimony, custody of children, and child support.
- § 16-914.02. Child custody and visitation rights of parents during deployment for military service.
- § 16-915. Change of name on divorce.
- § 16-916. Maintenance of spouse [or domestic partner] and minor children; maintenance of former spouse [or domestic partner]; maintenance of minor children; enforcement.
- § 16-916.01. Child Support Guideline.
- § 16-916.01a. — Appendices to § 16-916.01.
- § 16-916.02. Child Support Guideline Commission.
- § 16-916.03. Proceedings in which child support matters may be considered.
- § 16-917. Co-respondents as defendants; service of process.
- § 16-918. Appointment of counsel; compensation; termination of appointment.
- § 16-919. Proof required on default or admission of defendant.
- § 16-920. Effective date of decree or judgment for annulment or absolute divorce.
- § 16-921. Validity of marriage, action to determine.
- § 16-922. Validity of marriages and divorces solemnized or pronounced before January 1, 1902.
- § 16-923. Abolition of action for breach of promise, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation.
- § 16-924. Expedited judicial hearing for child support.
- § 16-925. Privacy protection for victims of domestic violence.
- § 16-1001. Definitions.
- § 16-1002. Complaint of criminal conduct.
- § 16-1003. Petition for civil protection.
- § 16-1004. Petition; notice; temporary order.
- § 16-1005. Hearing; evidence; protection order.
- § 16-1006. Jurisdiction.
- § 16-1021. Definitions.
- § 16-1022. Prohibited acts.
- § 16-1023. Defense to prosecution; continuous offenses; expenses; jurisdiction.
- § 16-1024. Penalties.
- § 16-1025. Prosecution by Attorney General.
- § 16-1026. Expungement.
- § 16-1031. Arrests.
- § 16-1032. Records.
- § 16-1033. Civil liability.
- § 16-1034. Training program.
- § 16-1041. Definitions.
- § 16-1042. Judicial enforcement of order.
- § 16-1043. Nonjudicial enforcement of order.
- § 16-1044. Registration of order.
- § 16-1045. Immunity.
- § 16-1046. Other remedies.
- § 16-1047. Uniformity of application and construction.
- § 16-1048. Transitional provision.
- § 16-1051. Definitions.
- § 16-1052. Establishment and purpose.
- § 16-1053. Composition of the Board; procedural requirements.
- § 16-1054. Access to information.
- § 16-1055. Subpoena power.
- § 16-1056. Confidentiality of information and proceedings; penalty for unlawful disclosure of information.
- § 16-1057. Immunity.
- § 16-1058. Rules.
- § 16-1059. Sunset.
- § 16-1101. Parties defendant; joint tenants and tenants in common.
- § 16-1102. Failure of tenant to give notice to landlord.
- § 16-1103. Contents of complaint; adverse possession.
- § 16-1104. Proof necessary.
- § 16-1105. Legal title in mortgagee or trustee; possession.
- § 16-1106. Performance of contract by vendee as precluding vendor from recovery.
- § 16-1107. Several judgments against defendants occupying distinct parcels.
- § 16-1108. Recovery of less than is claimed.
- § 16-1109. Recovery of mesne profits and damages; separate count.
- § 16-1110. Recovery, by landlord, of furniture, arrears in rent, and damages; separate counts.
- § 16-1111. Separate action for rent or damages.
- § 16-1112. Expiration of title pending suit; damages.
- § 16-1113. Defense of adverse possession; enclosure.
- § 16-1114. Verdict; judgment; costs; future actions.
- § 16-1115. Conclusiveness of final judgment.
- § 16-1116. Improvements; notice; good faith; directions to jury; measure of damages.
- § 16-1117. New trial as to assessment.
- § 16-1118. Judgment for damages in excess of improvements.
- § 16-1119. Judgment when improvements and damages are equal.
- § 16-1120. Election of plaintiff if value of improvements exceeds damages.
- § 16-1121. Judgment and writ of possession after payment for improvements.
- § 16-1122. Judgment and writ of possession after tender of deed and defendant’s refusal to pay.
- § 16-1123. Judgment for defendant after plaintiff’s refusal to pay excess or tender deed.
- § 16-1124. Ejectment for non-payment of rent; time limitation on relief from judgment; set-off; dismissal upon payment.
- § 16-1151. Petition by person entitled to claim; form and contents.
- § 16-1152. Order to produce life tenant; service of order.
- § 16-1153. Failure to produce as ordered; subsequent proceedings; commissioners; presumption of death; right of possession.
- § 16-1154. Investigation outside the District; report to court; presumption of death; right to possession.
- § 16-1155. Restoration of property to life tenant.
- § 16-1156. Recovery of profits by person evicted.
- § 16-1157. Preservation of life tenants’ rights if living at time of return.
- § 16-1158. Persons holding over after life estate; damages.
- § 16-1301. Jurisdiction of District Court.
- § 16-1302. Assignment of judge for condemnation cases.
- § 16-1303. Jurisdiction of Superior Court.
- § 16-1311. Condemnation proceedings by District of Columbia.
- § 16-1312. Juries for condemnation proceedings.
- § 16-1313. Selection of jury; oath of jurors.
- § 16-1314. Declaration of taking; contents; deposit; transfer of title; determination; interest.
- § 16-1315. Distribution of money deposited on declaration of taking; judgment for deficiency or overpayment; execution.
- § 16-1316. Time for surrender of possession under declaration of taking; adjustment of charges.
- § 16-1317. Objections to jurors; appraisement.
- § 16-1318. Objections or exceptions to appraisement; new jury.
- § 16-1319. Payment of award; transfer of title.
- § 16-1320. Fixing time for return of verdict.
- § 16-1321. Abandonment of proceedings; liability.
- § 16-1331. Acquisition of property in excess of needs.
- § 16-1332. Sale of excess property; restrictions on use; fair market value; disposition of moneys.
- § 16-1333. Notice of sale of excess property.
- § 16-1334. Retention, for public use, of excess property.
- § 16-1335. Availability of appropriations for purchase of excess property.
- § 16-1336. Condemnation of excess real property by Mayor; payment of awards, damages, and costs; no assessments for benefits.
- § 16-1337. Construction of subchapter.
- § 16-1351. Definition.
- § 16-1352. Condemnation proceedings by Attorney General.
- § 16-1353. Declaration of taking; contents; deposit; transfer of title; determination; interest.
- § 16-1354. Distribution of money deposited on declaration of taking; judgment for deficiency.
- § 16-1355. Time for surrender of possession under declaration of taking; adjustment of charges.
- § 16-1356. Setting date for trial.
- § 16-1357. Drawing of jurors, and selection of jury; qualifications.
- § 16-1358. Oath of jurors.
- § 16-1359. Inspection of property by jury; presence of parties.
- § 16-1360. Trial; evidence; measure of compensation.
- § 16-1361. Verdict.
- § 16-1362. Fixing date for new trial; new jurors.
- § 16-1363. Judgment.
- § 16-1364. Force and effect of judgment; payment.
- § 16-1365. Appeal; deficiency judgment.
- § 16-1366. Payment of compensation into court; vesting of title.
- § 16-1367. Delivery of possession.
- § 16-1368. Additional powers of court.
- § 16-1381. Acquisition of property in excess of needs.
- § 16-1382. Retention, for public use, of excess property.
- § 16-1383. Availability of appropriations for purchases of excess property.
- § 16-1384. Condemnation of excess real property by United States agencies; payment of awards, damages and costs.
- § 16-1385. Construction of subchapter.
- § 16-1501. Definition; summons.
- § 16-1502. Service of summons.
- § 16-1503. Judgment and execution for possession.
- § 16-1504. Certification to District Court upon plea of title; undertaking
- § 16-1505. Conclusiveness of judgment.
- § 16-1701. Invalidity of gaming contracts.
- § 16-1702. Recovery of losses at gaming.
- § 16-1703. Relief from further penalty upon discovery and repayment of losses.
- § 16-1704. Cheating at gambling.
- § 16-1901. Petition; issuance of writ.
- § 16-1902. Service of writ; return.
- § 16-1903. Suspected evasion or disobedience of writ; procedure.
- § 16-1904. Forfeiture and penalty for failure to produce.
- § 16-1905. Right to copy of commitment; forfeiture.
- § 16-1906. Inquiry into cause of detention; bail; bond.
- § 16-1907. Traversing return; pleading; witnesses.
- § 16-1908. Right of other persons to writ.
- § 16-1909. Construction of chapter.
- § 16-2101. Definition of joint and several contracts.
- § 16-2102. Death of party to the contract.
- § 16-2103. Extinguishment or merger of cause of action.
- § 16-2104. Death after action brought; legal representatives.
- § 16-2105. Proof of joint liability unnecessary; judgment.
- § 16-2106. Separate composition or compromise.
- § 16-2301. Definitions.
- § 16-2301.01. References deemed to refer to Family Court of the Superior Court.
- § 16-2301.02. Purpose.
- § 16-2302. Transfer of criminal matters to Family Division.
- § 16-2303. Retention of jurisdiction.
- § 16-2304. Right to counsel; party status.
- § 16-2305. Petition; contents; amendment.
- § 16-2305.01. Findings.
- § 16-2305.02. Preliminary probation conferences; adjustment process.
- § 16-2306. Service of summons and petition.
- § 16-2307. Transfer for criminal prosecution.
- § 16-2308. Initial appearance.