{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-15.814","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 15.814","heading":"Office's duty to locate custodial and noncustodial parents -- Enforcement of","body":"child support obligations -- Registry of information relating to parents --\nAssistance from governmental agencies -- Limits on availability of information.\n(1) Unless the Office of the Attorney General has reason to believe allegations of child\nabuse or domestic violence and that the disclosure of the information could be\nharmful to the custodial parent or the child of the parent, the office shall attempt to\nlocate a noncustodial parent of a child described in KRS 15.812, and establish or set\nan amount of modification, and enforce the child support obligation.\n(2) Upon the request of a putative father and for the purpose of establishing paternity\nonly, the Office of the Attorney General shall attempt to locate a custodial parent of\na child described in KRS 15.802 if the office finds the action to be in the best\ninterest of the child.\n(3) If paternity is established for a child described in KRS 15.812 as a resul t of the\nlocation of the custodial parent, the Office of the Attorney General shall establish a\nchild support obligation or a modification for a child support obligation and shall\nenforce the child support obligation if the office finds the enforcement of the order\nto be in the best interest of the child.\n(4) The Office of the Attorney General shall serve as a registry for the receipt of\ninformation which directly relates to the identity or location of absent parents, and,\nupon request of a putative father,  the location of a custodial parent, in order to\nestablish paternity, to answer interstate inquiries concerning deserting parents or\ncustodial parents, to coordinate and supervise any activity on a state level in search\nof an absent parent or custodial par ent, to develop guidelines for coordinating\nactivities of any governmental agency in providing information necessary for\nlocation of absent parents or custodial parents, to obtain information on the location\nof parents to enforce state and federal laws against parental kidnapping and to make\nor to enforce a child custody or visitation order, and is to process all requests\nreceived from an initiating county or an initiating state which has adopted the\nUniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act or the Unif orm Interstate Family\nSupport Act.\n(5) In order to carry out responsibilities imposed under this chapter, the Office of the\nAttorney General may request information and assistance from any governmental\nagency. All state, county, and city agencies, officers, and employees shall cooperate\nwith the Office of the Attorney General in determining the location of parents who\nhave abandoned or deserted children and shall cooperate with the office in\ndetermining the location of custodial parents for the purpose of e stablishing\npaternity with all pertinent information relative to the location, income and assets,\nproperty, and debt of the parents, notwithstanding any provision of state law\nmaking the information confidential.\n(6) The information which is obtained by th e Office of the Attorney General shall only\nbe available to such governmental agency or political subdivision of any state for\npurposes of locating an absent parent to enforce the parent's obligation of support\nand for the purposes of location of custodial  parents to establish paternity of\nputative fathers.","path":["KRS Chapter 15"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54318","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:48:34Z","sha256":"c8da3583070c010fc64f102553d5a3ba1b332d51ed1a2caaf66c194c9f246a0c","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-15.812","next":"us-ky/krs-15.816"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}