{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-403.646","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 403.646","heading":"Beginning and concluding collaborative law process.","body":"(1) A collaborative law process begins when the parties sign a collaborative law participation agreement.\n(2) A court may not order a party to participate in a collaborative law process over that party’s objection.\n(3) A collaborative law process is concluded by a:\n(a) Resolution of a collaborative matter as evidenced by a signed record;\n(b) Resolution of a part of the collaborative matter, evidenced by a signed record, in which the parties agree that the remaining parts of the matter will not be resolved in the process; or\n(c) Termination of the process.\n(4) A collaborative law process terminates:\n(a) When a party gives notice to other parties in a record that the process is ended; or\n(b) When a party:\n1. Begins a proceeding related to a collaborative matter wi thout the agreement of all parties;\n2. In a pending proceeding related to the matter: a. Initiates a pleading, motion, order to show cause, or request for a conference with the court; b. Requests that the proceeding be put on the court's active calendar; or c. Takes similar action requiring notice to be sent to the parties; or\n3. Except as oth erwise provided by subsection (7) of this section, discharges a collaborative lawyer or a collaborative lawyer withdraws from further representation of a party.\n(5) A party’s collaborative lawyer shall give prompt notice to all other parties in a record of a discharge or withdrawal.\n(6) A party may terminate a collaborative law process with or without cause.\n(7) Notwithstanding the discharge or withdrawal of a collaborative lawyer, a collaborative law process continues if, not later than thirty (30) days af ter the date that the notice of the discharge or withdrawal of a collaborative lawyer required by subsection (5) of this section is sent to the parties:\n(a) The unrepresented party engages a successor collaborative lawyer; and\n(b) In a signed record:\n1. The parties' consent to continue the process by reaffirming the collaborative law participation agreement;\n2. The agreement is amended to identify the successor collaborative lawyer; and\n3. The successor collaborative lawyer confirms the lawyer’s representation of a party in the collaborative process.\n(8) A collaborative law process does not conclude if, with the consent of the parties, a party requests a court to approve a resolution of the collaborative matter or any part thereof as evidenced by a signed record.\n(9) A collaborative law participation agreement may provide additional methods of concluding a collaborative law process.","path":["KRS Chapter 403"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54890","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:30Z","sha256":"33b37502ade0133c15c756b6aa3db3fa33ee8cacc44bf979ab18232132520940","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-403.644","next":"us-ky/krs-403.648"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}