Kentucky. Circuit Court (Franklin County)

Franklin, the eighteenth county formed in Kentucky, was fashioned from Woodford, Mercer, and Shelby Counties in 1794 and named for Benjamin Franklin. Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, also serves as the county seat.

The Circuit Court is the highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction within Franklin County, and serves as the appellate court for many cases arising from lower courts. Lower courts now include the District Court and have included the County, Justice's and Quarterly Courts. The circuit court has original jurisdiction in all justiciable causes not exclusively reserved to some other court (KRS 23A.010), and therefore has a wide variety of powers, including jurisdiction in criminal cases, adoptions, mental inquests, as well as divorce, probate, and land cases and other civil disputes.

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