Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 73-505

  • bureau: means the United States veterans' bureau or its successor. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • director: means the director of the United States veterans' bureau or his successor. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • pensioner: means a beneficiary of the bureau. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

Where a petition is filed for the appointment of a curator for a proposed pensioner who is a minor, a certificate of the director, or his representative, setting forth the age of such minor as shown by the records of the bureau and that the appointment of a curator is a condition precedent to the payment of any moneys due the minor by the bureau, shall be prima facie evidence of the necessity for such appointment.