Legal Question in Family Law in Kentucky

"Disposition" is the final stage of a 3 stage process in dependency, neglect and abuse hearings. First is a Temporary Removal/Arraignment hearing, second is adjudication, and third is disposition. In the disposition, the social worker makes recommendations about custody and other orders for treatment for the parents. The judge's give all the other partie's a chance to respond to the social worker's report and then decides what is going to happen. The custody is usually temporary custody to a relative or "commitment" to the Cabinet if the child was removed initially. Parents usually have the next several months to a year to comply with treatment that was ordered and regain custody.