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West Virginia Family Court Circuits Map and Description
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| Unlike districts in the legislative branch, judicial branch positions are not so strongly limited by equal representation requirements. Therefore, the Legislature has developed judicial alignments which take into account the case loads of the courts as well as population and geographical area in order to fairly distribute court services. Family Court circuits were created by the Legislature in 2001 to provide for the family courts required by the 2000 Constitution Amendment adopted by the voters - the Unified Family Court Amendment. House Bill No. 3106 effective June 7, 2007, realigned certain Family Court circuits and added ten judges to the state’s Family Court system. In total forty-five Family Court judges currently serve as elected officials in 27 family court circuits. |
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West Virginia Code §51-2A-3
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Below is a list of the Family Court circuits, their number of Family Judges, and the counties within each.
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