The article is devoted to the study of the practice of application by the courts of the Russian Federation of the provisions of Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for criminal liability for threatening to kill or causing serious harm to health, in relation to the family and household sphere. The practice of various courts of different subjects of the Russian Federation for 2019 is taken for analysis. As a result of the study, conclusions were drawn regarding the gender and age characteristics of the perpetrators of the crime and the victims, the features of interpersonal relations between the perpetrators and the victims, in particular, the features of their kinship, the circumstances and methods of committing the crime were investigated, the conclusion was made about what tools are used in the commission of a crime under Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in the family and household sphere. As a result of the conducted research, a conclusion was made about the number of persons who committed a crime during the period of criminal record, including recidivism, the types and size of the punishment imposed for committing a crime under Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation were studied, conclusions were drawn about what circumstances are considered by the courts as mitigating and aggravating punishment. Based on the results of the monitoring, a number of conclusions were made regarding legal errors committed when considering cases of persons accused of committing a crime under Article 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a number of ways to overcome the difficulties encountered by law enforcement officers were proposed.