Certain actions concerning realty to be brought in county where land is situated
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case American General Home Equity, Inc. v. Kestel (2008)
Most recently applied in Kentucky Southern Coal Corp. v. Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet (April 2013)
Effective: July 15, 1982 History: Amended 1982 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.
Actions must be brought in the county in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated:
(1) For the recovery of real property, or of an estate or interest therein;
(2) For the partition of real property except as is provided in KRS 452.420;
(3) For the sale of real property under a mortgage, lien, or other encumbrance or charge, except for debts of a decedent;
(4) For an injury to real property.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.