law: Family Courts Act, 1984
  8. Exclusion of jurisdiction and pending
  
  proceedings 
  Where a Family Court has been established for
  
  any area,- 
  (a) no district court or any subordinate civil
  
  court referred to in sub-section (1) of section 7 shall, in relation to such
  
  area, have or exercise any jurisdiction in respect of any suit or proceeding of
  
  the nature referred to in the explanation to that sub-section;
  (b) no magistrate shall, in relation to such
  
  area, have or exercise any jurisdiction or power under Chapter IX of the Code
  
  of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974);
  (c) every suit or proceeding of the nature
  
  referred to in the explanation to sub-section (1) of section 7 and every
  
  proceeding under Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of
  
  1974),- 
  (i) which is pending
  
  immediately before the establishment of such Family Court before any district
  
  court or subordinate court referred to in that sub-section or, as the case may
  
  be, before any Magistrate under the said Code; and
  (ii) which would have
  
  been required to be instituted or taken before or by such Family Court if,
  
  before the date on which such suit or proceeding was instituted or taken, this
  
  Act had come into force and such Family Court had been established, shall stand
  
  transferred to such Family Court on the date on which it is established.