  Studying excited nucleon structure through exclusive electroproduction
reactions is an important avenue for exploring the nature of the
non-perturbative strong interaction. Electrocouplings for $N^*$ states in the
mass range below 1.8~GeV have been determined from analyses of CLAS $\pi N$,
$\eta N$, and $\pi \pi N$ data. This work made it clear that consistency of
independent analyses of exclusive channels with different couplings and
non-resonant backgrounds but the same $N^*$ electro-excitation amplitudes, is
essential to have confidence in the extracted results. In terms of hadronic
coupling, many high-lying $N^*$ states preferentially decay through the $\pi
\pi N$ channel instead of $\pi N$. Data from the $KY$ channels will therefore
be critical to provide an independent analysis to compare the extracted
electrocouplings for the high-lying $N^*$ states against those determined from
the $\pi N$ and $\pi \pi N$ channels. A program to study excited $N^*$ decays
to non-strange and strange exclusive final states using CLAS12 will measure
differential cross sections to be used as input to extract the $\gamma_vNN^*$
transition form factors for the most prominent $N^*$ states in the range of
invariant energy $W$ up 3~GeV in the virtually unexplored domain of momentum
transfers $Q^2$ up to 12~GeV$^2$.
