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Courts, Laws & Legal Services 

Find out about our courts, laws, and legal services.

 Resources
  • Courts
    Search for information concerning all levels of the state court system.
    • Circuit Court
      View information about Kentucky's circuit courts.
      • Circuit Court: General Information
        The Circuit Court is the court of general jurisdiction and hears civil matters involving more than $4,000.00; learn more.
      • Drug Court
        Since 1993 the Kentucky Drug Court Program has been helping people rid their lives of the influence of drugs.
      • Family Court
        Family Court gives cases involving families and children the highest priority, which means they don't compete with criminal and civil cases for judicial time.
      • Map of Judicial Circuits
        An image of Kentucky with the Judicial Circuits highlighted and numbered
    • Court of Appeals
      Learn about the Court of Appeals, including judges and appellate districts.
      • Court of Appeals
        The Court of Appeals is exactly what its title implies. Nearly all cases come to it on appeal from a lower court.
      • Map of Court of Appeals
        This map outlines Kentucky's seven appellate districts.
    • Supreme Court
      View information about Kentucky's Supreme Court including rulings and opinions of the judges.
      • Kentucky Bar Association
        The Kentucky Bar Association is an independent agency of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Its authority to regulate the legal profession in Kentucky, delegated by the Kentucky Supreme Court through rules, is derived from the Kentucky Constitution.
      • Supreme Court
        The Kentucky Supreme Court is the court of last resort and the final interpreter of state law. It hears appeals of decisions from the lower state courts.
      • Supreme Court District Map
        A county-by-county map of appellate districts
    • Courts by County Information
      These pages include Court of Justice personnel listings, juror information and county history for each county.
    • District Court
      The District Court has limited jurisdiction, which means it hears only certain types of cases. 90% of all Kentuckians involved in court proceedings appear in District Court.
    • Kentucky Court of Justice
      Judicial power of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is vested in one Court of Justice, which is divided into a Supreme Court, a Court of Appeals, a trial court of general jurisdiction known as the Circuit Court and a trial court of limited jurisdiction known as the District Court.
  • Laws
    View the unofficial version of Kentucky's laws and statutes.
    • Bill Watch
      Bill Watch is a free eDemocracy service that provides a complete suite of tools to connect citizens and businesses interactively with proposed legislation by allowing them to find and track legislation they have selected to watch as it makes its way through the Kentucky General Assembly. Bill Watch helps remove some the mystery of lawmaking by adding transparency to the process.
    • Kentucky Court of Justice Online Resources
      Here you will find online services, links to the State Law Library and research resources and publications for the Kentucky Court of Justice.
    • Kentucky Statutes
      The statutes provided at this Web site are an unofficial posting of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as maintained in the official internal statutory database of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission.
    • Legislative Districts
      Links to maps created by House Bill 1 of the 2002 General Assembly
    • Legislative Research Commission
      Services that this commission provides include: committee staffing, bill drafting, oversight of the state budget and educational reform, production of educational materials, maintenance of a reference library and Internet site, and the preparation and printing of research reports, informational bulletins and a legislative newspaper.
    • RegWatch
      Sign up with state government agencies to receive notice of administrative regulation changes in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
  • Legal Services
    Search for county and Commonwealth attorneys and find the definitions to commonly used legal terms.
  • Licensing