Kentucky procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to a Kentucky complaint: 20 days, and no clerk's default judgmentKentucky CR 12.01 gives 20 days after service of the summons to serve an answer, and 10 days after entry of an order denying a pre-answer motion — and every default judgment goes to a judge.
• Vacating a Kentucky judgment: six grounds, three of which expire in a yearKentucky CR 60.02 lists six grounds for relief from a final judgment — mistake, newly discovered evidence and perjury are capped at one year, and filing does not suspend the judgment.
• Kentucky's ten days: the motion to alter, amend or vacate a judgmentKentucky CR 59.05 gives just 10 days from entry of judgment to serve a motion to alter, amend or vacate — one of the shortest post-judgment windows in the country.
• The Kentucky motion to dismiss: twenty days to respond, ten if the motion failsKentucky CR 12.02 lists seven defenses that may be raised by motion, and CR 12.01 gives only ten days to answer once the motion is denied — measured from entry, not notice.
• Kentucky summary judgment: ten days' notice, and opposing affidavits up to the day beforeKentucky CR 56.03 requires the motion to be served at least 10 days before the hearing and lets the adverse party serve opposing affidavits any time before the day of hearing.
• The Kentucky motion to compel: five separate rules, and one of them protects the CommonwealthKentucky CR 37.01 is the motion to compel, with fees mandatory both ways — and CR 37.05 bars an expense award against the Commonwealth.
• Kentucky garnishment: your wages sit in escrow for fifteen days, and an objection keeps them thereKentucky CR 69.02 requires garnished wages to be held in escrow for 15 days from the employer's check, and an objection filed in that window keeps them held until the court rules.

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