Masters v. Masters

Opinion of the Court by

Justice VENTERS.

Appellant, Shane Thomas Masters, appeals a decision of the Court of Appeals that, based upon our opinion in Petrey v. Cain, 987 S.W.2d 786 (Ky.1999), concluded that the Madison Family Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to rule upon Appellant’s motion to modify a child custody order. As a result of that ruling, the Court of Appeals vacated the trial court’s order and remanded the matter for further proceedings.

We granted discretionary review to reconsider the jurisdictional question raised in the Court of Appeals’ opinion. Upon that re-consideration…