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CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Applied; termination of parental rights; hearsay evidence harmless. In re Johnson, 214 Kan. 780, 783, 522 P.2d 330.

2. Parent whose parental rights are severed entitled to court appointed counsel on appeal if parent indigent. In re Brehm, 3 Kan. App. 2d 325, 326, 594 P.2d 269.

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, 248, 249, 596 P.2d 1242.

4. Mentioned; parent in deprived child action is a party to the action and has right of access to the court's social file. Nunn v. Morrison, 227 Kan. 730, 734, 608 P.2d 1359.

5. Indigent parents must have counsel appointed to represent them at a deprived child hearing. In re Cooper, 5 Kan. App. 2d 584, 585, 621 P.2d 437.

6. Section safeguards parental rights protected by 14th amendment of U.S. Constitution. Wilson & Walker v. State, 230 Kan. 49, 51, 630 P.2d 1102 (1981).

7. Parents have right to counsel in some deprived child actions even when severance of rights not involved. In re Cooper, 230 Kan. 57, 59, 60, 64, 71, 75, 631 P.2d 632 (1981).

8. 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, 478, 644, P.2d 467 (1982).

9. Due diligence to attempt to locate parent before service by publication may be used to sever parental rights; if parent located publication service may not be used. In re Woodard, 231 Kan. 544, 548, 549, 646 P.2d 1105 (1982).