Kansas Adoption Court Cases

Kansas Court Case: In re J.H.
The plan was explained to D.H. and R.H. step by step and discussed on several occasions. Since R.H. was not fluent in English, the plan was also discussed in Spanish by the social workers. After the children were removed, the parents rented a house in Lakin, Kansas, but were evicted in July or August 1995. They then moved into a trailer house in Garden City but were evicted in January 1996. With slight modifications, both the house and the trailer house would have met the requirements of the reintegration plan...


Kansas Court Case: Application of Vallimont
This is an appeal in an action for a writ of habeas corpus brought by the father against the maternal grandparents requesting the care, custody and possession of his two minor daughters, Alana, born April 22, 1954, and Pamela, born July 20, 1955. For clarity the appellants will be referred to as the grandparents or respondents and the appellee will be referred to as the father or petitioner. The question presented is whether the evidence introduced by the grandparents, which sought to prove that the father was unfit to have the custody of his two minor daughters, was sufficient to withstand a demurrer...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Waters
Arthur Philip Waters married Loretta Brinkhoff in Idalia, Colorado, in 1955. Arthur then went to Japan as a teacher in the Armed Forces. Later he was joined by Loretta. Kenji Scott Waters, the subject of the adoption proceedings, was born in Japan on June 12, 1956. On August 8, 1957, Arthur and Loretta were divorced and by the terms of a child custody agreement Arthur was to have unlimited visitation privileges until Loretta and Kenji left Japan. However, during the short...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Sharp
This is an appeal in an adoption proceeding which was instituted in the probate court of Sedgwick county on January 8, 1965, by the stepmother of two minor children. The petition was premised on an allegation that the consent of the natural mother was unnecessary because of her failure and refusal "to assume the duties of a parent for two consecutive years" under K. S. A. 59-2102 (3). An answer was filed in which the natural mother denied the pertinent allegations of the petition and objected to the adoption. After a full hearing in the probate court a decree of adoption was entered from which the natural mother appealed. At the trial in district court the court...


Kansas Court Case: Interest of Armentrout
This case originated in the juvenile court of Ford County pursuant to the provisions of the Juvenile Code ( K.S.A. 38-802, et seq., [now 1970 Supp.]). The parental rights of Karen G. Armentrout Jones, the natural mother of Starlette Armentrout, were severed and Starlette was made a ward of the Ford County Social Welfare Department by the juvenile court. An appeal by Mrs. Jones and a trial de novo in the district court resulted in a similar judgment. Thereafter Mrs. Jones perfected this appeal...


Kansas Court Case: Browning v. Tarwater
Connie Lynn Lewis was married to her present husband, Robert Browning, on the 23rd day of November, 1966. On October 8, 1971, Etta Tarwater, the mother of Jack H. Lewis, deceased, filed a petition in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, requesting visitation rights with Lori Lynn Lewis pursuant to the provisions of K. S. A. 38-129 et seq. On May 1, 1972, by order of the district court visitation rights were granted to Etta Tarwater, the paternal grandmother. Thereafter on the 29th of August, 1972, the order granting visitation rights to the grandmother, Etta Tarwater, was amended to give a specific time each week...


Kansas Court Case: Aslin v. Seamon
The record reflects the testimony was conflicting in this case. The trial court found William Thompson was the natural father of Linda and Tina Foster and had consented to their adoption, and the natural mother, Clara Foster Aslin, had failed to assume her duties as a "parent" for two consecutive years preceding the filing of the adoption petition. It granted David and Marjorie Seamon custody of the children because parental obligation required more than Clara Aslin's "sporadic attempts at having a child returned." The Seamons claim...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Harrington
Following the divorce of the natural parents, the mother married Richard Toland, the petitioner, in August 1975. The mother filed written consent to Toland's adoption of the child, but the natural father did not consent to the adoption. The trial court found the father was not in arrears in child support payments at the time the adoption petition was filed, January 29, 1979. The father had made two payments during the two-year period immediately preceding the filing of the adoption petition. In March 1977 the father paid $ 150; in December 1978 he paid $ 1,200. During the same two-year period the father sent one birthday card to Tatum in August 1977, and one Christmas...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Steckman
This is an appeal by Doral Eugene Steckman from a decree of adoption granted in the Stafford District Court. Steckman, the natural father of Sammy and Millie Steckman, is contesting his children's adoption by Glen Courtney, their stepfather, because he did not give his consent. Steckman and Mildred Rebecca Steckman, now Courtney, were divorced June 2, 1976. Mildred received custody of the two minor children, Sammy and Millie. Steckman was granted visitation rights consisting of alternate...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Wilson
The evidence relevant to this issue may be summarized as follows. The 1971 marriage of Dennis and Mary Wilson terminated in divorce in June of 1975. Two children were born of the marriage -- Jason Lee and Jeremy Ray. As a part of the decree of divorce Mary was granted custody of the children and Dennis was ordered to pay $ 250.00 per month child support and keep certain insurance in effect. In September of 1975 Dennis married his present wife, Cheryl Wilson. In April of 1976 Mary married Glenn L. Patrick, her present husband and petitioner herein. By June of 1976 Dennis was some $ 400.00 delinquent in child support payments and moved the court...


Kansas Court Case: Adoption of Trent
About four months before the child's birth, the appellants learned of the natural mother's desire to place the expected child for adoption. The natural mother's sister, Vee Collins, and the appellant Judy Hoover's sister, Anna Ashe, initiated the discussions between the parties. The natural mother eventually telephoned the appellants, and told Judy Hoover the reasons why she was offering the child for adoption: the appellee was receiving welfare, and had financial problems; she already had one child; she had been taking Valium and Dilantin due to a health problem, which increased the probability of birth defects; and the child's father was a fugitive with incarceration pending...


Kansas Court Case: Gross v. VanLerbert
This is a nonstatutory action commenced by the mother of plaintiff, Randal Paul Gross, a ten-year-old minor child, seeking an adjudication that the defendant, Richard O. VanLerberg, was the natural father of plaintiff and an order requiring the defendant to provide for the support and education of the plaintiff. The action was commenced on November 29, 1977. Defendant VanLerberg...

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