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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 454 MISCELLANEOUS CIVIL PRACTICE PROVISIONS
454.220 Personal jurisdiction of courts over nonresidents in certain domestic relations matters.
Download pdfsupport, alimony, maintenance, distributive awards, or special relief in matrimonial
actions may exercise personal jurisdiction over the respondent or defendant
notwithstanding the fact that he or she no longer is a resident or domiciliary of this state,
or over his or her executor or administrator, if the party seeking support is a resident of or
domiciled in this state at the time the demand is made, if this state was the matrimonial
domicile of the parties before their separation; the defendant abandoned the plaintiff in
this state; or the claim for support, alimony, maintenance, distributive awards, or special
relief in matrimonial actions accrued under the laws of this state. The action shall be filed
within one (1) year of the date the respondent or defendant became a nonresident of, or
moved his domicile from, this state. Service of process may be made by personal service
if the defendant or respondent is found within the state or by service through the use of
KRS 454.210(3). Effective: July 14, 1992
History: Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992.
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