Pulaski Circuit Court Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Petitions seeking protection under KRS Chapter 403 or 456 must use form AOC-275.1 and be accepted and filed with the court.

All petitions requested, completed, and signed by persons seeking protection under KRS Chapter 403 or KRS Chapter 456 shall be made on form AOC-275.1, and shall be accepted and filed with the court. KRS 403.725, KRS 456.030.

CRITICAL

A verified emergency protective order or domestic violence order motion in a dissolution or child custody proceeding must use AOC form 275.1 and be filed as a petition.

If a verified motion for an emergency protective order or a domestic violence order is filed in a dissolution or child custody proceeding, the motion must be filed on AOC form 275.1, as a petition, pursuant to KRS 403.720(2), and it shall be assigned a domestic violence "D" case number with the appropriate trailer number regardless of the fact that it was filed as a motion in the Circuit Court dissolution or child custody case.

CRITICALCivil cases

Subject to court orders and rules governing e-filing, only original papers may be filed; facsimiles, emails, and other copies may not be filed except as exhibits to a properly filed document.

E. Except as otherwise ordered by the Court or provided for by the Civil Rules or other Supreme Court Orders as relates to e-filing, the Clerk shall only accept for filing original pleadings, motions, memoranda, proposed orders and other papers. Facsimiles, emails or other copies shall not be filed except as exhibits to an otherwise properly filed document.

CRITICAL

Protective-order petitions under KRS Chapters 403 or 456 must be made on form AOC-275.1.

All petitions requested, completed and signed by persons seeking protection under KRS Chapter 403 or KRS Chapter 456 shall be made on form AOC-275.1

CRITICALCivil cases

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Format

PAPER

Court papers must meet the stated paper, font, spacing, margin, and pagination requirements, except for AOC or other official agency-approved forms.

All pleadings, motions, memoranda, proposed orders and other papers to be field with the Court shall be printed or typewritten on one side only of unglazed white paper which is 8.5 inches by 11 inches in dimension, in size 12 font or larger (excluding footnotes), double spaced (except for indented quotations and footnotes), and with at least a one inch margin on each side. All documents exceeding a single page in length shall be paginated. This Rule shall not apply to AOC or other official agency approved forms.

WARNINGCivil cases

Counsel must not file copies of cited authorities unless they are unavailable through traditional or computer-assisted legal research, but may tender relevant authority copies at a pending-motion hearing.

G. Except as otherwise ordered, when filing pleadings, motions, memoranda or other papers, counsel shall not file copies of relevant reported or un-reported cases or other cited authority unless such case or other authority is unavailable through the use of traditional or computer assisted legal research methods. Counsel may, at a hearing on a pending motion, tender to the Court copies of relevant authority.