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Rule 104 Assignment of cases

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated30th Judicial Circuit - Jefferson Family Court

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated
30th Judicial Circuit - Jefferson Family Court
Rule 1. Introduction/Administrative Procedure
KY JFRP Rule 104
Rule 104 Assignment of cases
A. The current alphabetical assignment of cases among the Jefferson Family Courts is available in the Jefferson Family Court Clerk's Office, the Jefferson Family Court Administrator's Office, or on the Jefferson Family Court Website: http://courts.ky.gov/circuitcourt/familycourt/sites/Jefferson/default.htm
B. Case assignment shall be made alphabetically based on the last name of the female litigant. For filing, where both litigants are of the same sex, the action shall be assigned based on the petitioner's last name. Dependency, neglect, abuse, status and custody cases shall be assigned based on the child's mother's last name. In order to facilitate the concept of one-family, one-judge, if a subsequent action is filed regarding the same litigants, that action shall be assigned to the family court division before which the parties first appeared.
C. Cases will be alphabetically assigned to the appropriate division by utilizing the spelling of the second part of a hyphenated last name.

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HISTORY: Amended effective July 22, 2011; prior amendments effective September 2, 2006; approved and amended effective January 1, 2004.
Jefferson Family Court Rule 104, KY R JEFFERSON FAM CT Rule 104
Current with amendments received through November 15, 2023. Some rules may be more current, see credits for details.
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