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[1] [2] Signed by Governor Matt Bevin on April 26, 2018, [3] [4] it was the first such law for permanent child custody orders passed in the United States. [5] [6] A temporary order aided the law's passage of the shared parenting bill, House Bill 492, passed a year before. The law became a motivator for similar bills to be passed in other states ...
A court that has made a child-custody determination consistent with UCCJEA has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until either (1) that court determines that neither the child, the child's parents, nor any person acting as a parent has a significant connection with the State that made the original order and that ...
In 2017 Kentucky drafted House Bill 492, which addressed temporary custody orders. This bill established that if both parents agreed on a temporary order, the court would presume that is the best arrangement for the child and that if they did not agree, the court would presume the parents should share the temporary custody equally.
The Jefferson County Circuit Court is the largest single unified trial court in Kentucky. [2] [3] Appeals from decisions of the Circuit Courts are made to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state intermediate appellate court, which may be further appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
The man’s parents, Dennis and Gina Barton, filed suit in federal court on Oct. 8 against Whitley County, the detention center, the fiscal court, Jailer Jason Wilson, several jail employees and ...
The court concluded that a difference of three seats in the 100-seat Kentucky House didn’t rise to the level of a “clear, flagrant and unwarranted” violation of constitutional rights.
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
The Kentucky Constitution Section 99 declares that constables “shall be elected in each county” and “shall enter upon the duties of their offices on the first Monday in January after their ...