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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.
This category contains articles regarding case law decided by the courts of Kentucky. Pages in category "Kentucky state case law" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Courts of Kentucky include: Kentucky Court of Justice. 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 ...
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.
The judicial branch of Kentucky is called the Kentucky Court of Justice [8] and comprises courts of limited jurisdiction called District Courts; courts of general jurisdiction called Circuit Courts; specialty courts such as Drug Court [9] and Family Court; [10] an intermediate appellate court, the Kentucky Court of Appeals; and a court of last ...
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 launched in Jefferson County Circuit providing a specialized forum for complex commercial cases.
Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper testified the full video shows Stines using his own phone to make multiple calls, then using the judge’s phone to make a call. The shooting followed.
The Family Court was created by Part 2 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, merging the family law functions of the county courts and magistrates' courts into one. Two scenarios are covered by the Children Act of 1989: private law cases, where the applicant and respondent are usually the child's parents ; and public law cases, where the applicant ...