Do We Need A Family Court ?

[ponto]

Family Court is a division of Circuit Court, Kentucky's highest trial court level.

It employs full-time judges with the same qualifications as those who serve other divisions of Circuit Court.

Family 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.

Because Family Court is devoted exclusively to cases involving families and children, family law cases do not compete for court time with criminal and other civil cases.

Family Court was established as a permanent part of the Kentucky Constitution when the Family Court amendment passed in 2002 by 75 percent of the vote.

Today Family Court serves more than 2 million Kentuckians in 43 counties.

But the Maysville area does not currently have a family court. This is something that can be done if the citizens of the area want to get r done.

Read More from Website (http://www.kycourts.net/AOC/MAFCS/AOC_MAFCS.shtm)

[GirlColumbo]

Today Family Court serves more than 2 million Kentuckians in 43 counties.

ponto with those statistics it sure looks like Maysville need a family court

[Foxy]

Absolutely we need a family court. In a family court ONE judge handles all cases involving the family, as Ponto stated. If this had been the case in 2003 with a friend of mine, then when the child's mother plead guilty in criminal court to neglect, then the same judge would have been able to grant custody to the father. Instead, what happened was the one judge granted custody in criminal court and the civil court judge ignored that and awarded the guilty parent custody! That is outrageous!