What is and Emergency Protective Order?
An EPO is a judicial order forbidding a person from destroying property, harming a spouse or contacting a spouse. This may often include granting a spouse custody child support and even alimony. Under Kentucky law a woman that claims domestic violence and that requests an EPO is given an almost automatic grant of the children and child support with little or no right to the spouse to defend the claim. In an article by the Courier Journal it was claimed that almost one half of all the cases in our courts were false claims that were filed to obtain an advantage in the divorce system.
