Printable Format23-2205. Definitions. (a) As used in this act, "parent and child relationship" means the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's biological or adoptive parents incident to which the law confers or imposes rights, privileges, duties and obligations. "Parent and child relationship" includes the mother and child relationship and the father and child relationship.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term "child" includes any unborn child as defined in K.S.A. 23-3001, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1985, ch. 114, § 2; L. 2025, ch. 112, § 2; July 1.
Source or Prior Law:
38-1111.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
Makaela Stevens, When the Child Adopts the Parents: Considering Attachment and Psychological-Parent Doctrine in Kansas Adoptions, 72 U. Kan. L. Rev. 247 (2023).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Actions of parents in no way limit or extinguish rights of child. In re Marriage of O'Brien, 13 Kan. App. 2d 402, 409, 772 P.2d 278 (1989).
2. Absence of jurisdiction examined where action brought without mother, child and presumed father as parties. State ex rel. Secretary of SRS v. Stephens, 13 Kan. App. 2d 715, 782 P.2d 68 (1989).
3. Purpose of Kansas parentage act stated and applied. In re Marriage of Ross, 245 Kan. 591, 595, 783 P.2d 331 (1989).
4. Cited; father failed to appear at adoption hearing because of mother's fraud; adoption not void under case facts. In re Adoption of A.A.T., 287 Kan. 590, 612, 626, 196 P.3d 1180 (2008).