Kentucky Revised Statutes
Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.050 (2026)
Divorce from bed and board -- Grounds and legal effect
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Divorce from bed and board may be rendered for any cause that allows divorce, or for any other cause that the court in its discretion considers sufficient. A divorce from bed and board shall operate as to property thereafter acquired, and upon the personal rights and legal capacities of the parties, as a divorce from the bond of matrimony, except that neither shall marry again during the life of the other, and except that it shall not bar curtesy, dower or distributive right. The judgment may be revised or set aside at any time by the court rendering it. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2121.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14
cases, 1942–1973 · leading case: Bailey v. Bailey, 474 S.W.2d 389 (Ky. Ct. App. 1971).
Bailey v. Bailey, 474 S.W.2d 389 (Ky. Ct. App. 1971). “KRS 403.050 vests in the Chancellor the power to grant a divorce from bed and board for any cause which he considers sufficient.”
Smith v. Smith, 497 S.W.2d 418 (Ky. Ct. App. 1973). “182), appellee Edith Smith sued appellant Giliis Smith for a divorce from bed and board (KRS 403.050). Mr. Smith counterclaimed for an absolute divorce (KRS 403.”
Cecil v. Farmers Nat. Bank, 245 S.W.2d 430 (Ky. Ct. App. 1952). “The question presented on this appeal is, did the reconciliation of the parties, who thereafter lived together and held themselves out as husband and wife under the belief that it was unnecessary to remarry, annul the divorce judgment and set aside their separation agreement…”
McDaniel v. McDaniel, 165 S.W.2d 966 (Ky. Ct. App. 1942). “Kentucky Revised Statutes, Section 403.050 (Section 2121, Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes).”
Jones v. Tartar, 215 S.W.2d 955 (Ky. Ct. App. 1948). “It is expressly provided in KRS 403.050 that a judgment of divorce from bed and board may be revised or set aside at any time by the court granting it.”
Gentry v. Gentry, 318 S.W.2d 870 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958). “The judgment is merely a decree for a legal separation and may be revised or set aside at any time by the court rendering it. The judgment operates as to the acquisition of a right to property thereafter acquired, but the status of the parties as to all property acquired…”
Oliver v. Oliver, 258 S.W.2d 703 (Ky. Ct. App. 1953). “On March 24, 1952, she filed this action under KRS 403.050. Following a hearing of the case the Chancellor granted Mrs.”
Grubb v. Grubb, 220 S.W.2d 1000 (Ky. Ct. App. 1949). “But unfortunately, we are not capable of performing feats of magic and are unable to produce a formula which will supply ample funds to maintain this family divided into separate units when there were hardly sufficient funds to support it as a whole. Should conditions change,…”
Dunning v. Dunning, 325 S.W.2d 315 (Ky. Ct. App. 1959). “The wife counterclaimed for divorce from bed and board, KRS 403.050, on the ground of cruel treatment.”
Duvall v. Duvall, 431 S.W.2d 491 (Ky. Ct. App. 1968). “*493 Inasmuch as KRS 403.050 exempts property acquired after divorce from bed and board, it would seem fair to exclude from the gross value of Mr.”
Cadden v. Cadden, 272 S.W.2d 474 (Ky. Ct. App. 1954). “, a divorce from bed and board under KRS 403.050, the Chancellor awarded Mrs. Cadden the custody of their infant son, subject to specified visitation of the *475 child by Mr.”
Walker v. Walker, 324 S.W.2d 804 (Ky. Ct. App. 1959). “KRS 403.050(2); Noel v. Noel, 307 Ky. 122 , 210 S.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.050(2) — 1 case
Walker v. Walker, 324 S.W.2d 804 (Ky. Ct. App. 1959). “KRS 403.050(2); Noel v. Noel, 307 Ky. 122 , 210 S.”
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