CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Provisions of juvenile code are to be liberally construed for best interests of child. Lennon v. State, 193 Kan. 685, 689, 396 P.2d 360.

2. Original juvenile court act mentioned in holding exercise of power to be exercise of parental power of state; proceedings hereunder not criminal. State v. Fountaine, 196 Kan. 638, 643, 414 P.2d 75.

3. Jurisdictional limits of juvenile court determines if act is criminal or delinquent. State v. Augustine, 197 Kan. 207, 209, 416 P.2d 281.

4. Juvenile code as amended in 1965 mentioned as a "misconceived act" which has placed a "tremendous stumbling block in the path of our judiciary to administer justice expeditiously." (Concurring opinion.) In re Long, 202 Kan. 216, 219, 448 P.2d 25.

5. Applied; K.S.A. 38-808(b) apparently not complied with; no substantial evidence for finding boys not amenable; reversed and remanded. In re Patterson, Payne and Dyer, 210 Kan. 245, 251, 499 P.2d 1131.

6. State has no right of appeal from juvenile court order declining to waive its original jurisdiction. In re Waterman, 212 Kan. 826, 830, 512 P.2d 466.

7. Constitutional provisions relating to right to confront and cross-examine witnesses (U.S. Constitution, Amendment 6, Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights, Section 10) takes precedence over statutory provisions against disclosure of records. State v. Wilkins, 215 Kan. 145, 147, 148, 523 P.2d 728.

8. Applied; evidence of events subsequent to filing petition for termination of parental rights admissible; findings upheld. In re Nelson, 216 Kan. 271, 275, 531 P.2d 48.

9. Act not deprival of equal protection of laws because of differentiation between boys sixteen and eighteen years of age. State v. Green, 218 Kan. 438, 442, 544 P.2d 356.

10. Detention of juvenile and denial of bail did not contravene federal or state constitutions; no right to bail under code. Pauley v. Gross, 1 Kan. App. 2d 736, 739, 742, 574 P.2d 234.

11. Cited; court authorized to take judicial notice of juvenile file. Beebe v. Chavez, 226 Kan. 591, 593, 602 P.2d 1279.

12. Liberal construction applied to K.S.A. 38-824(b)(2); court may commit child as best serves the child's welfare and state's interest. In re Collins, 3 Kan. App. 2d 585, 587, 598 P.2d 1075.

13. Applied; rights of one parent may be severed under code even though both parents of deprived child are living. In re Wheeler, 3 Kan. App. 2d 701, 703, 601 P.2d 15.

14. Term "unfit" in K.S.A. 38-824(c) not unconstitutionally vague, nor does statute violate constitution for failure to incorporate doctrine of least restrictive alternative. In re Brooks, 228 Kan. 541, 548, 618 P.2d 814.

15. Section cited in determining that parents have right to counsel in some deprived child actions. In re Cooper, 230 Kan. 57, 59, 631 P.2d 632 (1981).

16. Child held to be a deprived child even though the child was never in parent's custody. In re Price, 7 Kan. App. 2d 477, 482, 644 P.2d 467 (1982).

17. Juvenile code establishes its own procedure, apart from code of civil procedure. In re Woodard, 231 Kan. 544, 646 P.2d 1105 (1982).

18. Cited in holding adult convictions reversed for failure to follow juvenile code; no district court jurisdiction. State v. Breedlove, 285 Kan. 1006, 1011, 179 P.3d 1115 (2008).

19. Father's expenditure of child's settlement money for needs and desires of child upheld. In re Tatro, 387 B.R. 833, 840 (2008).