Kansas Adoption Laws Page1

Adoption Laws in Kansas Page1

About adoption consent

• For whom it is must to consent to adoption : Statute: - § 59-2129

  In case of the independent adoption following needs to consent:

  1. Parents if alive
  2. Legal guardian of child
  3. Court having jurisdiction
  4. Authorized representative of any child adoption agency.

• Age required of an adoptee to consent of adoptee: Statute: - § 59-2129

  A child of age 14 years or more than that, and is intellect enough then have to consent to the adoption.

• No need of parental consent: Statute: - § 59-2136(h)

  The parental consent is not at all needed if the father:

  2. neglected the child
  3. failed to communicate or contact the child
  4. is unfit
  5. failed to help mother of a child during pregnancy
  6. abandoned the mother of the child
  7. raped the mother of the child
  8. failed to response parental duties at least for 2 years
  9. this is also applicable to the mother of a child.

• When consent may be executed: Statute: - §- § 59-2114(b); 59-2116
  • The mother can not consent at least 12 hours after the birth of a child. Consent can not be executed in 6 months before an adoption petition is filed.
  • At any time a father can also consent.

• How consent can be executed: Statute: - §- § 59-2114; 59-2115
  • Parent of any minor can consent, it should be provided with counsel before the execution of consent, and counsel has to be there at the time of signing the consent.
  • Consent has to be written as well as acknowledged in front of the judge.

• Revocation of the consent: Statute: - § 59-2114
  • Consent is final at the time of the execution until the person who is consenting, before the final decree of adoption, proves that consent was not freely and clearly given with the convincing proof.