Access to Justice for Kentucky Consumers
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In Kentucky, there's no Affidavit procedure available for small estates. There is a summary probate procedure available for estates that are less than $30,000, there is no Will, and there is a surviving spouse. This procedure is also available if there is no surviving spouse and someone else has paid at least $30,000 in preferred claims.
Kentucky, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
Yes. Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 427.170
Real or personal property used as residence to $5,000; sale proceeds exempt
$2,500
In Kentucky, the duration of benefits depends on the state's unemployment rate when you apply. The maximum period for which you can receive benefits ranges from 12 to 24 weeks.
The minimum wage in Kentucky is the same as the federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
The minimum wage in Fayette County is $7.25 an hour, the state minimum wage. Kentucky law prohibits city and county governments from adopting a local minimum wage that's higher than the state minimum wage.
The minimum wage in Lexington is $7.25 an hour. The city of Lexington passed an ordinance setting a higher local minimum wage ($8.20, to start) in 2015. After this ordinance was passed, however, Kentucky's Supreme Court found that cities and local governments don't have the right to raise the minimum wage. As a result, Lexington employees are entitled only to the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25.
In Kentucky, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.