Power of attorney to confess judgment -- Release of errors
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 39 N.J. Super. 410 - Friendly Consumer Discount Co. v. Foell (1956)
Most recently applied in Ashland Armco Employees Credit Union v. Cantrell (September 1984)
Effective: July 14, 2018 History: Amended 2018 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Except as provided in KRS 457.150, any power of attorney to confess judgment or to suffer judgment to pass by default or otherwise, and any release of errors, given before an action is instituted, is void.
(2) No person shall appear for a defendant under any such power in any court in this state.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.