Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 59-2128

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Oath: includes an affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in similar cases "swear" includes affirm. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

(a) A petition for adoption shall be filed by the person desiring to adopt the child, and shall state the following information, if reasonably ascertainable, under oath:

(1) The name, residence and address of the petitioner;

(2) the suitability of the petitioner to assume the relationship;

(3) the name of the child, the date, time and place of the child’s birth, and the present address or whereabouts of the child;

(4) the places where the child has lived during the last five years;

(5) the names and present addresses of the persons with whom the child has lived during that period;

(6) whether the party has participated, as a party or witness or in any other capacity, in any other proceeding concerning the custody of or visitation with the child and, if so, identify the court, the case number, and the date of the child-custody determination, if any;

(7) whether the party knows of any proceeding that could affect the current proceeding, including proceedings for enforcement and proceedings relating to domestic violence, protective orders, termination of parental rights, and adoptions and, if so, identify the court, the case number, and the nature of the proceeding;

(8) whether the party knows the names and addresses of any person not a party to the proceeding who has physical custody of the child or claims rights of legal custody or physical custody of, or visitation with, the child and, if so, the names and addresses of those persons;

(9) whether one or both parents are living and the name, date of birth, residence and address of those living, so far as known to the petitioner;

(10) the facts relied upon as eliminating the necessity for the consent or relinquishment, if the consent or relinquishment of either or both parents is not obtained;

(11) whether the interstate compact on placement of children, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 38-1201 et seq., and amendments thereto, and the Indian child welfare act, 25 U.S.C. § 1901 et seq., have been or will be complied with prior to the hearing.

(b) If the information required by subsection (a) is not furnished, the court, upon motion of a party or its own motion, may stay the proceeding until the information is furnished.

(c) If the declaration as to any of the items described in subsection (a)(6) through (a)(9) is in the affirmative, the declarant shall give additional information under oath as required by the court. The court may examine the parties under oath as to details of the information furnished and other matters pertinent to the court’s jurisdiction and the disposition of the case.

(d) The petitioner has a continuing duty to inform the court of any proceeding in this or any other state that could affect the current proceeding.

(e) A petition filed in a step parent adoption shall not require a statement in compliance with the interstate compact on placement of children.

(f) The written consents to adoption required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2129, and amendments thereto, or any relinquishment pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2124, and amendments thereto, the background information required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2130, and amendments thereto, the accounting required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2121, and amendments thereto, and any affidavit required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-2126, and amendments thereto, shall be filed with the petition for adoption.