Apply style at top of frame

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I'm placing about 150 pages of continuous text from a Word doc. The doc is being continually edited and each time I place it to create a draft, there is a different placement of words, which is fine. The page size is also different in Word and InDesign I should add.
There is a Head B paragraph style in InDesign that is allowed to occur anywhere.
The issue is that when the Head B occurs in the middle of a text frame, it needs to have a rule above it. But when it lands at the top of a text frame, it CANNOT have a rule above it. Is there anyway to use GREP or scripting or something to have InDesign identify when this style occurs at the top of the text frame, and have it use the style without the rule?
I can't assign this ahead of time in Word as the layout is completely different once placed in InDesign. And it's a bit of a pain to find them all and adjust by hand every time as there are about 40 of them.
Thanks so much!

Here is a script. You have to replace "Head B" on the first line with the original style and "Head C" on the second line with the style you want it to become if it is the first paragraph of the text frame.
Save the script to your script panel folder then select some text of the story and run the script.
This script doesn't have any error checking so you have to make sure you select text before running the script and the story can't have any overset text or it will through an error.
var myOriginalStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Head B")
var myFinalStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Head C")
var myStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
var myP = myStory.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
for(var j = myP.length -1;j>=0;j--){
    var myTF = myP.parentTextFrames[0];
    if(myP.appliedParagrahStyle = myOriginalStyle && myTF.paragraphs[0] == myP)
    myP.appliedParagrahStyle = myFinalStyle

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