Family Court currently serves more than 3.2 million Kentuckians in 71 counties. Information regarding court locations, rules, opinions, how-to guides, and additional infomation from the Utah State Courts system. Because Family Court is devoted exclusively to cases involving families and children, these cases do not compete with criminal and other civil cases for court time.įamily Court is a division of Circuit Court, Kentucky's highest trial court level, and employs full-time judges with the same qualifications as those who serve other divisions of Circuit Court. Circuit judges serve in eight-year terms.įamily Court provides one judge to hear all of a family’s issues relating to divorce, child custody, adoption, termination of parental rights, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. Some circuits contain only one county but have several judges, depending on population and caseload. One judge may serve more than one county within a circuit. In addition to general jurisdiction of Circuit Court, the family court division of Circuit Court, concurrent with the District Court, has jurisdiction over proceedings involving domestic violence and abuse the Uniform Act on Paternity and the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act dependency, neglect, and abuse and, juvenile status offenses. Circuit Court has the power to issue injunctions, writs of prohibition and writs of mandamus and to hear appeals from District Court and administrative agencies.Īs a division of Circuit Court with general jurisdiction, the family court division of Circuit Court further retains primary jurisdiction in cases involving dissolution of marriage child custody visitation maintenance and support equitable distribution of property in dissolution cases adoption and, termination of parental rights. Circuit Court is the court of general jurisdiction that hears civil matters involving more than $5,000, capital offenses and felonies, land dispute title cases and contested probate cases.
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