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They also have concurrent jurisdiction with the family court division of the Circuit Court over proceedings involving domestic violence and abuse, the Uniform Parentage Act and Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, dependency, child abuse and neglect, and juvenile status offenses.
In 2019, the Kentucky Supreme Court created a Business Court Docket Pilot project in the Jefferson County Circuit Court, effective January 1, 2020. [1] Circuit judges serve in eight-year terms. There are 57 circuits, which may have one or more judges, depending on the population and docket size.
Under an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution passed by the state's voters in 1975, [1] judicial power in Kentucky is "vested exclusively in one Court of Justice", divided into the following: [2] Kentucky Supreme Court [3] Kentucky Court of Appeals [4] Kentucky Circuit Courts (57 circuits) [5] Kentucky District Courts (60 judicial districts) [6]
The United States District Court for the District of Kentucky was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] [2] At the time, Kentucky was not yet a state, but was within the territory of the state of Virginia. The District was unchanged when Kentucky became a state on June 1 ...
District and division Date service began Larry E. Thompson, Chief Judge: 7th District, 2nd Division: 2019 Pamela R. Goodwine, Deputy Chief Judge: 5th District, 1st Division: 2019 J. Christopher McNeill: 1st District, 1st Division: 2020 Lisa P. Jones: 1st District, 2nd Division: 2024 Jeff S. Taylor: 2nd District, 1st Division: 2003 Kelly Mark Easton
A new Kentucky Supreme Court is charged with issuing a ruling in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s abortion bans. Though oral arguments took place November 15 in a case ...
The Kentucky Circuit Court with jurisdiction over Jefferson County, Kentucky, includes the city of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1991, the Family Court was established as a separate division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, and is tasked with handling all family law matters. [4] On January 1, 2021, Kentucky's first Business Court Docket was ...
In remembrance of Mullins, flags at all Kentucky Court of Justice facilities will be lowered to half-staff through Monday. Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter said he was ...