Skaggs v. Stanton

LUKOWSKY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered by the Grayson Circuit Court pursuant to CR 12.02 dismissing the complaint of the appellant for alienation of affections on the ground that the action was not commenced within one year of the date of the accrual of the cause of action.

The appellant submits that the five year statute of limitations, KRS 413.120(7), not the one year statute of limitations, KRS 413.140(l)(c), controls.

The solution to this problem lies in the answer to the question, are criminal conversation and alienation of affections separate and distinct…