v. Lambert, 46 F.3d 1275, 1283 (2d Cir.1995). “[It does not] strip the federal courts of authority to hear cases arising from the domestic relations of persons unless they seek the granting or modification of a divorce or alimony decree ... or a child custody decree.” Id. (quoting Ankenbrandt, 504 U.S. at 701-02, 112 S.Ct. 2206). In Ankenbrandt, the Court held the exception inapplicable to a plaintiffs state-law tort claims against her ex-husband who had allegedly committed child abuse after the two were granted a divorce because the suit only sought monetary damages. 504 U.S. at 704, 112 S.Ct. 2206. Accordingly, claims solely seeking monetary relief will rarely invoke the domestic relations exception. See King v. Comm’r, No. 00-9234, 2003 WL 1343011, at *2 (2d Cir. Mar. 19, 2003) (<HOLDING>); Ellis v. Little Flower Children’s Servs., No.
holding that a plaintiff can seek statutory damages even in the absence of actual damages recognizing that federal removal jurisdiction is determined by the amount of damages a plaintiff seeks holding that domestic partner who assumed a parental status over her partners child and performed parental duties with the partners permission stood in loco parentis to the child and had standing to seek partial custody and visitation holding that the statute creating the maryland human relations commission did not grant the commission power to make monetary awards for compensatory or other damages particularly in the absence of any statutory guidelines or limitations holding that the domestic relations exception is irrelevant where the plaintiff seeks monetary damages and does not seek a domestic relations award or reinstatement of his parental rights