IN RE ADOPTION OF SMITH

No. 52,314

6 Kan. App. 2d 575 (1981)

631 P.2d 255

In the Matter of the Adoption of DARCY GENE SMITH, a/k/a DARCY GENE ZIMMERMAN, a minor child.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Boone, of Hays, for the appellants.

Daniel C. Walter, of Ryan, Kent, Wichman, Walter & McClymont, Chartered, of Norton, for the appellee.

Before FOTH, C.J., REES and SWINEHART, JJ.


SWINEHART, J.:

This is an appeal by petitioners from a ruling denying their petition to adopt.

Gaylene Sue Smith, the natural mother, is twenty-five years of age and has a ninth-grade education. She has an eight-year-old son in the custody of her first husband. She has three daughters, aged seven, six and four, born of her second marriage to Carroll Smith. Darcy Gene Smith, age six, is the subject of this adoption petition. Carroll Smith was retired from the...

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