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Appendix B

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated43rd Judicial Circuit - Barren and Metcalfe Family Court

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated
43rd Judicial Circuit - Barren and Metcalfe Family Court
KY RBARF App. B
Appendix B
Parental Conduct Guidelines
If the parties have any minor children, the parties shall comply with the following guidelines concerning the treatment of those children:
The parties shall as far as possible leave the child out of the court proceedings. It is wrong to involve the child in the parties' disagreements. The child is undergoing enough stress without being brought directly into his or her parents' disputes.
Specifically,
• the parties shall not use the child to send messages, property, letters, checks, or other items to each other;
• the parties shall be civil to one another in the presence of the child, and shall not discuss the court proceedings, or the cause of the court proceedings, in the presence or hearing of the child;
• clothes, toys, and other property used primarily by the child shall be sent with the child on visitations as needed, including adequate and appropriate clothing, and such property shall be returned with the child;
• the parties shall not unduly involve the children in their dispute in any other way; and,
• no party may remove the child from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for any period longer than twenty-four (24) consecutive hours without permission by court order except for medical or family emergency.
The parties are reminded that visitation is the right of the child as well as of the parent.
The parties are also reminded to avoid disorderly custodial behavior. No party may exercise such party's rights as sole custodian or joint custodian concerning the education, health care, or religious training, or athletic, cultural, or recreational activities, of one or more children of the parties in any manner constituting vexatious or harassing conduct with respect to any party or to any individual or institutional third party.
These are guidelines regarding parenting conduct that should continue until the subject child's emancipation.

Credits

HISTORY: Adopted effective April 21, 2012.
Barren and Metcalfe Family Court App. B, KY R BARREN FAM CT App. B
Current with amendments received through November 15, 2023. Some rules may be more current, see credits for details.
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