Printable Format38-816.
History: L. 1957, ch. 256, § 16; L. 1965, ch. 278, § 5; L. 1970, ch. 165, § 4; L. 1976, ch. 207, § 17; L. 1978, ch. 158, § 14; Repealed, L. 1982, ch. 182, § 150; January 1, 1983.
Source or prior law:
38-404(a), 38-411(a).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. 1965 act changed substantive law and is prospective in application. State v. Augustine, 197 Kan. 207, 416 P.2d 281.
2. Subsections (a) and (b) provide alternative methods for commencing act in dependency and neglect. In re Hamlett, 2 Kan. App. 2d 642, 643, 586 P.2d 277.
3. Cited; in a dependency and neglect proceeding court may not tax general court costs against a person who was not a parent, guardian or custodian of the child when proceeding commenced. In re Boehm, 226 Kan. 247, 596 P.2d 1242.
4. Mentioned; parent has right of access to court's social file in a deprived child action. Nunn v. Morrison, 227 Kan. 730, 737, 608 P.2d 1359.
5. Fitness of parent not an issue in determining whether the parent's consent to adoption is required. In re Adoption of Wilson, 227 Kan. 803, 806, 610 P.2d 598.
6. General references to persons interested in child not sufficient authority to grant grandmother intervention in severance proceeding. Wilson & Walker v. State, 230 Kan. 49, 54, 630 P.2d 1102 (1981).