Kentucky House Bill 434: AN ACT relating to posthumous name changes.

Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Amend KRS 401.010 to allow a family member of a deceased person to posthumously change the deceased person's name if the name is the result of marriage to a person arrested for or charged with committing an offense intentionally, knowingly, or wantonly, which resulted in the death of the deceased; provide that the order of priority of family members is the same as in KRS 367.93117.

Latest action

to Judiciary (H) (2026-01-28)

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