19 www.loubar.org July / August 2026 HELP SUPPORT THE LOUISVILLE BAR FOUNDATION Allen “Carl” Platt has been recognized as a Fellow of the Louisville Bar Foundation. The LBF Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have achieved success in the legal profession and whose generous personal gifts have supported the law-related mission of the Louisville Bar Foundation. Platt has been a lawyer with a general civil litigation practice in Kentucky and In- diana for the past 52 years. He concluded his law practice in 2025 while at Ricketts Law Offices in Louisville. Platt is a graduate of University of Louisville and the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He was admitted to the Kentucky and Indiana bars. During his legal career, Platt served as a real estate closing at- torney and as an Assistant District Counsel and trial attorney for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. To learn more about the LBF Fellows Program and how you may become an LBF Fellow, visit the link below or contact the Foundation Director, Jeff Been, at [email protected] or (502) 292-6734. Allen “Carl” Platt II Honored as Fellow of the LBF To become a Fellow visit https://www.loubar.org/foundation-fellows-program/. The LBF’s endowment and grantmaking activities are made possible through the support of the legal community. Here are three programs of the LBF where your support can make a difference. Your $45 charitable contribution at dues renewal When you renew your LBA dues each year, you have the option to include a $45 charitable contribution to the LBF. This goes directly to support the work of the LBF in making grants to the local community. Did you forget to make your contribution this year? Not to worry. You can make a gift anytime to the LBF by simply clicking the link on the LBF webpage: https://www.loubar.org/foundation-make-a-gift/. Your gift is always appreciated. Become a Fellow of the LBF LBF Fellows Program participants are generous individuals who have made a one-time gift or pledge of $1,000 or more to the Foundation’s endowment. LBA members may become LBF Fellows by pledging $250 per year over a four-year period. The Foundation recognizes its Fellows in various promotional materials and invites Fellows to special events throughout the year. Over 375 of your colleagues are LBF Fellows. Join them! Your law firm or legal department can become a Foundation Partner To qualify for Foundation Partner status, firms or in-house corporate legal departments (of five or more members) make a $45 contribution to the LBF for each LBA member attorney in the firm or department. Funds contributed through the Foundation Partners program will help continue the charitable works of the LBF by supporting the grant making operations and increasing the funds available for grant awards. Foundation Partners are recognized in the publications of the LBA and LBF, and on the organizations’ websites. To learn more about these programs or to make a contribution to the LBF, please contact Jeffrey A. Been, LBF Executive Director, at (502) 292-6734 or [email protected]. n AOC UPDATES LEGAL FORMS AOC UPDATES LEGAL FORMS As a result of recently enacted legislation, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has updated several AOC legal forms impacting several areas of law, including probate and wage garnishment. The legislation necessitating these changes went into effect on July 15, 2026. In total, 23 forms currently available for public use have been revised, and two forms have been created. Below is a list of each of the forms, indicating whether the form was revised or created. Please review the list to determine whether these forms are utilized in your legal practice and take action accordingly. The new versions of the forms listed below are available for use via the KCOJ’s public website Legal Forms page, located here: https://www.kycourts.gov/Legal-Forms/Pages/default.aspx. The pre-July 15 versions of these forms are now obsolete. If you or your office down- loaded and/or printed the pre-July 15 versions of the forms, please destroy and begin using the revised versions. 1. AOC-150 Notice of Rights to Assert Exemption to Wage Garnishment (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 2. AOC-150.5 Affidavit and Supplemental Order of Wage Garnishment (Civil) (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 3. AOC-275.3 Order of Protection DVO/Amended DVO/IPO/Amended IPO (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 4. AOC-296 Name Change Order (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 5. AOC-411 Private Probation Agency Requirements and Agreement (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 6. AOC-446 DVO/IPO (Following Stalking/Sexual Assault/Assault Conviction) (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 7. AOC-495 DUI (Guilty Plea) (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 8. AOC-715 Order Appointing Counsel, Setting Preliminary Hearing, and Setting Examination (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 9. AOC-805 Petition for Probate of Will; and/or Appointment of Executor/Admin- istrator (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 10. AOC-805.1 Order Probating Will; or Probating Will and Appointing Executor/ Administrator (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 11. AOC-805.2 Order Appointing Administrator (No Will) (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 12. AOC-808 Financial Disclosure (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Creation 13. AOC-809 Declaration of Oath of Fiduciary (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Creation 14. AOC-815 Affidavit of Waiver of Appointment of Fiduciary (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 15. AOC-825 Fiduciary Bond (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 16. AOC-841 Inventory and Appraisement of Estate (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 17. AOC-845 Notice of Failure to File (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 18. AOC-846 Settlement of Estate (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 19. AOC-850 Application for Informal Final Settlement (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 20. AOC-850.1 Informal Final Settlement Order (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 21. AOC-851 Affidavit of Waiver of Formal Settlement (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 22. AOC-JV-31.1 Disposition Order Public Offense (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 23. AOC-JV-35 Juvenile Detention Order Status Offense (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 24. AOC-JV-41 Affidavit and Truancy Evaluation Form (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision 25. AOC-JV-50 Adjudication Order (Public and Status Offense) (Rev. 7-26) Action taken: Revision
