Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 73-506

  • 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.
  • pensioner: means a beneficiary of the bureau. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • person: includes a partnership, corporation or an association. 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 of a proposed pensioner who is alleged to be an incapacitated person a certificate of the director or his representative, setting forth the fact that such person has been rated incompetent by the bureau on examination in accordance with the laws and regulations governing such bureau and that the appointment of a curator is a condition precedent to the payment of any moneys due such person by the bureau, shall be prima facie evidence of the necessity for such appointment.