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Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.110

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This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to: (1) Strengthen and preserve the integrity of marriage and safeguard family relationships; (2) Promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage; (3) Mitigate the potential harm to the spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage; (4) Make reasonable provision for spouse and minor children during and after litigation; and (5) Make the law of legal dissolution of marriage effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for its dissolution. History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 182, sec. 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 24 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1973–2024 · leading case: Gentry v. Gentry
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Gentry v. Gentry (1990) ky · cites it 8× “, concurs by separate opinion in which JAMES G. SHEEHAN, Jr., Special Justice, joins.”
Pennington v. Marcum (2008) ky · cites it 4× “In 1972, the Kentucky General Assembly enacted KRS 403.110 et seq. following a national trend to permit no-fault divorces.”
Lane v. Lane (2006) ky · cites it 6× “945 (citing KRS 403.110). Yet, the Edwardson Court nonetheless overruled Stratton, supra, explaining that the policy declared therein was no longer necessary or pertinent as it was designed primarily to protect women, who were "decidedly second class" citizens at the time.”
Edwardson v. Edwardson (1990) ky · cites it 4× “KRS 403.110. A number of other jurisdictions have confronted the question before this Court and abandoned or modified the prohibition against enforcement of antenuptial agreements which contemplate divorce.”
Peterson v. Peterson (1979) kyctapp · cites it 2× “In fact, by promoting the use of settlement agreements to resolve marital disputes, KRS 403.110, the doctrine may have even more validity under the no-fault divorce statutes.”
Likins v. Logsdon (1990) ky · cites it 4× “It finds this authority in KRS 403.110, stating: "Our marriage dissolution statute mandates that it `shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.”
Dame v. Dame (1982) ky · cites it 2× “Certainly and most assuredly, the purposes sought by KRS 403.110, supra, would be frustrated. In Kentucky Family Law, Divorce, Sec.”
Messer v. Messer (2004) ky · cites it 2× “Dame unequivocally holds, noting the purposes of KRS 403.110 and particularly the need for finality between divorcing parties, that lump-sum maintenance awards, paid in one installment or many installments, are not subject to modification.”
Woodson v. Woodson (2011) ky · cites it 2× “KRS 403.110, in describing the purpose of that chapter, states that it shall be “liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.”
London v. Collins (2007) kyctapp “” KRS 403.110(3). Before a custody decree is entered the trial court must determine what custody arrangement will be “in accordance with the best interests of the child.”
Shumaker v. Paxton (1981) ky “The enactment in 1972 of Kentucky’s no-fault divorce law, KRS 403.110 et seq., patterned after the divorce portion of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act; and in 1980 of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, KRS 403.”
Burke v. Hammonds (1979) kyctapp · cites it 2× “KRS 403.110. 4 . KRS 403.110(1) and (3). 5 .”
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— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.110(1) — 6 cases
Pennington v. Marcum (2008) ky “In 1972, the Kentucky General Assembly enacted KRS 403.110 et seq. following a national trend to permit no-fault divorces.”
Edwardson v. Edwardson (1990) ky “KRS 403.110. A number of other jurisdictions have confronted the question before this Court and abandoned or modified the prohibition against enforcement of antenuptial agreements which contemplate divorce.”
Gentry v. Gentry (1990) ky “, concurs by separate opinion in which JAMES G. SHEEHAN, Jr., Special Justice, joins.”
Likins v. Logsdon (1990) ky “It finds this authority in KRS 403.110, stating: "Our marriage dissolution statute mandates that it `shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.”
Burke v. Hammonds (1979) kyctapp “KRS 403.110. 4 . KRS 403.110(1) and (3). 5 .”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.110(3) — 6 cases
London v. Collins (2007) kyctapp “” KRS 403.110(3). Before a custody decree is entered the trial court must determine what custody arrangement will be “in accordance with the best interests of the child.”
Kerry A. Nielsen Ehr v. Hon Dee McDonald Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division Eight (2016) ky
Kerry A. Nielsen Ehr v. Hon Dee McDonald Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division Eight (2017) ky
Kerry A. Nielsen Ehr v. Hon Dee McDonald Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division Eight (2017) ky
Jay Picard v. Katherine Knight (2024) ky
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.110(4) — 1 case
Jay Picard v. Katherine Knight (2024) ky
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 403.110(l) — 1 case
Gentry v. Gentry (1990) ky “, concurs by separate opinion in which JAMES G. SHEEHAN, Jr., Special Justice, joins.”
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