KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE
Under KRE 401, “___________” evidence means evidence having tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probably or less probable than it would be without the evidence.
RELEVANT
As set out in KRS § 403.212(2)(d), THIS dollar amount is the basic self-support reserve that considers the subsistence needs of the parent with a limited ability to pay under federal statute.
$915/month
Under KRS § 199.470(1), a person who is 18 years of age and has lived in Kentucky for this long may file a Petition for Adoption in their home county’s Circuit Court.
12 months
This case extended the stepparent adoption doctrine set forth in Hicks v. Enlow to cover a biological grandparent seeking visitation with a grandchild after an intrafamily grandparent adoption.
Blackaby v. Barnes
War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, is told through the eyes of THIS man, in the unenviable role of divorce attorney to one-half of a litigious and unreasonable pair.
Danny Devito (as Gavin D'Amato, Michael Douglas's attorney)
Two of the five privileged relationships listed in KRE 501-507.
The updated support guidelines top out at this amount in combined monthly income.
$30,000
When you file a Petition for Adoption under KRS 199.490(2), you must also include a certified copy of this.
TPR Orders
In RM and SM v. Cabinet, bio parents whose rights were terminated argued that adoption of their children by an American family was not in the kids’ best interests, in part because that family had no knowledge of, and the Trial Court gave no consideration to, this ethnic tradition.
Roma/Romany/Gypsy
The most unbelievable part of this 1979 hit starring Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffmann is the notion that a parent might make a selfless choice in the best interests of their child.
Kramer v. Kramer
One of the three methods of proving character listed by KRE 405.
This case can create accounting and repayment nightmares if one parent is receiving childcare money as part of child support, but the childcare is no longer actually being incurred.
Under KRS 199.500(3), if a child is at least this many years old, you need the child’s consent to finalize your adoption, unless the Court in its discretion waives this requirement.
12 years old
In the DV case of Daniel Smith v. Jason McCoy, wherein the Supreme Court found that the trial court didn’t need to make any extra FOF/COL beyond the form, this was the relationship between Petitioner and Respondent.
Daniel Smith was the father of Jason McCoy’s girlfriend’s daughter (a.k.a. the DV Respondent was "the boyfriend")
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin used this pretentious phrase to signify their breakup
"Consciously uncoupling"
The hearsay exceptions for unavailable declarants are set forth in this rule of evidence
KRE 804
Each parent must now absorb this amount of unreimbursed medical expenses per child, per calendar year.
$250
If a biological parent doesn’t consent to an adoption, they are entitled to counsel under KRS 199.502(3), but the fee for their counsel is not to exceed this dollar amount.
$500
JSB v. SRV holds that adoption severs the parental rights of both biological parents, with this single exception being permitted
Step-parent adoption
After being forced to resign from Congress, Anthony Wiener used this pseudonym while engaged in extramarital sexting
Carlos Danger
In KRE 804(a), a child’s out-of-court statement is excluded as hearsay if a number of conditions apply, and the child has reached THIS magical emotional, physical, mental, or developmental age.
Age 12
Although McCarty v. Faried expanded child support obligations for those beyond the upper guidelines, this 2018 Court of Appeals case curbed the reach of McCarty and affirmed the rejection of the income shares model.
Wilson v. Inglis, 554 S.W.3d 377 (Ky. Ct. App. 2018)
Under KRS § 199.540(2), this is the period of time from entry of a Judgment of Adoption when the adoption is safe from collateral or direct attack.
1 year
Normandin v. Normandin focused in part on the division of this as a marital asset, calling them “a form of equity-based compensation under which the issuer company promises to deliver whole shares of stock of the company in the future to an employee at no cost to the employee, if pre-specified vesting and distribution conditions are satisfied.”
RSUs (restricted stock units)
In "Marriage Story," we are asked to believe that a woman who looks like Scarlett Johansson would marry a man who looks like this Star Wars bad guy
Adam Driver