People v. Allen

In 1962, the Legislature enacted section 812 of the Family Court Act, vesting the Family Court with “ exclusive original jurisdiction over any proceeding concerning acts which *111would constitute disorderly conduct or an assault between spouses or between parent and child or between members of the same family or household.’’ Subsequently, the act was amended to substitute ‘‘harassment, menacing, reckless endangerment, an assault or an attempt [ed] assault ” for “ or an assault ”.

In each of the cases before us, we are called upon to consider, for the first time, whether an unceremonialized…