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Landlord sued former tenants for failure to pay rent and related charges and for early termination of the written lease and physical damage to the property in excess of the security deposit. As part of the claim, Landlord also sought recovery of attorneys’ fees under KRS 383.660 for the tenants’...
Former owner of real property sued to void the deed of conveyance from almost five (5) years earlier alleging that his and his wife’s signatures were forged. In deposition testimony both former owner and wife confirmed signatures were not forged on deed. Trial court granted summary judgment to current owner...
This case involved a conflict between the beneficiary listing on an IRA as compared to the Property Settlement Agreement terms entered into by the parties. In the divorce, Van Buskirk agreed that she would not receive an of the IRA funds upon the death of the IRA’s owner, her former...
In Higgins, et al. v. BAC Home Loans, et al., a case filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, Higgins and other property owners sought statutory damages under KRS 382.360 for the failure of their mortgage holders to file an assignment of them mortgages in the county clerk’s office. The promissory...
A basic landlord/tenant dispute has become a decade-long litigation matter. Tenants who were college students entered into a lease for residential property for the upcoming school year. Upon there arrival the tenants determined the property was not in the condition promised. Though the tenants moved in to begin the school...
A business in the mall was evicted based upon a repeated failure to timely pay rent. The district court in a forcible detainer proceeding noted that its jurisdiction was limited to nonpayment of rent (not other breach of contract claims) but proceeded with the eviction. The Circuit court sitting as...
Parents who never married presented an issue of whether a trial court’s order directing and authorizing one parent to obtain a passport for their minor child was an enforceable order. The mother argued that the order was a modification of the custody decree without proper findings of fact and conclusions...
Fifth Third Bank sought to enforce banking agreements that included pledges of equine collateral. Gulf Coast attempted to prove that the terms of the agreement with the lender were different than contained within the documents executed by the parties. The trial court ruled in favor of Fifth Third by Opinion...
Plumber installed new underground water supply to apartment buildings under renovation by new owner. After several years owner determined that the water line installation was defective as joints in the pipes burst from having been overtightened at installation. No visible evidence existed of the harm until a puddling of water...
In a case that traversed from trial court, to court of appeals, back to the trial court, back to the court of appeals and then to supreme court, Kentucky’s highest court changed the law on noncompetition agreements and the consideration required for an enforceable restrictive covenant. Company sued former employee...