Ky. Admin. Office of the Courts, Circuit/District Court Clerks' Manual, ch. 43 (Forcible Entry and Detainer)

Citation: Ky. Admin. Office of the Courts, Circuit/District Court Clerks' Manual, ch. 43 (Forcible Entry and Detainer)
Jurisdiction: Kentucky (state)
Source: Official source
Original Source: https://www.kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Documents/ClerksManual.pdf ↗

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If the court determines that domestic or dating violence/abuse, stalking, or
sexual assault exists and issues a summons, but does not issue an EPO or
TIPO:
1. Refer to the Case Add section of the KYCourts Manual for instructions on
opening the case. If no prior case exists involving the parties, assign a case D case
number using the next pre-numbered folder for D cases including a trailer Case type:
number. If a prior case exists involving the parties, assign the appropriate DV – Domestic
trailer to the existing case number. Violence
 Best Practice: Cases involving petitioner as minor, respondent as IPO – Interpersonal
minor or petitioner specifically “on behalf of a minor” placed in the Protection
confidential division are to be filed in a separate-colored file folder
and bound with other existing trailers, if any.
 Do not assign a new number if the same parties have a prior domestic
violence or interpersonal protective order case in your court.
 It does not matter which party was the petitioner or the respondent,
so long as the case is a DV/IPO case between the two parties named Event type DV or IP
in the current petition. Do not include
 To separate trailers, copy the case history at the close of each case. petitioner’s address
Place a tab on the side of the copy and insert in a file folder as a on party screen
divider. Document type
COM
2. For DVO cases, use case type DV. For IPO cases, use case type IP.
3. Do not include the petitioner's address on the party screen.
4. Add the petition as a document using document type COM.
5. Enter the judge code of the trial commissioner or judge reviewing the
petition and ordering the case filed on the case screen as the opening
judge. Event type DV
6. Check the index of circuit court cases to ascertain if a dissolution or