Legal Question in Family Law in Kentucky

children over the age of 18

If you are applying for divorce but have adopted children over the age of 18 do you file w/children or without children


Asked on 9/09/05, 11:07 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Martin Kasdan, Jr. Martin Z. Kasdan, Jr., Attorney at Law

Re: children over the age of 18

The only reason to include them would be if they were "disabled" as set out in KRS 2.015. However, I usually list them in the paperwork with a note that there were children, namely ______ and ______, who are over the age of 18. :

KRS 2.015 "Age of majority - Exceptions" states in full:

Persons of the age of eighteen (18) years are of the age of majority for all purposes

in this Commonwealth except for the purchase of alcoholic beverages and for

purposes of care and treatment of children with disabilities, for which twenty-one

(21) years is the age of majority, all other statutes to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Answered on 9/09/05, 1:29 pm


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