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IN RE ADOPTION OF GATES

No. 52,878

6 Kan. App. 2d 945 (1981)

636 P.2d 818

In the Matter of the Adoption of KELLIE JEAN GATES and JENNIFER ANNETTE GATES, Minor Children.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed November 25, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall C. Henry, of Mitchell and Henry, of Hutchinson, for the appellant.

No appearance by appellee.

Before FOTH, C.J.; presiding, TERRY L. BULLOCK, District Judge, and FREDERICK WOLESLAGEL, District Judge Retired, assigned.

FOTH, C.J.:

In 1979 Nancy Gates filed a petition in Rice County District Court to adopt her two grandchildren, then 12 and 13 years of age. Attached to the petition were consents to the adoption executed by the children's parents in California in 1968. At the hearing the father (Donald Gates, petitioner's son) appeared and objected to the receipt of the consents because inter alia, they were not executed in accordance with California law. The trial court agreed and...

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