IN RE SHELTON

No. 54,263

8 Kan. App. 2d 226 (1982)

654 P.2d 487

IN THE INTEREST OF WALTER SHELTON, a juvenile under 18 years of age.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth M. Carpenter of Carpenter & Carpenter, Chartered, of Topeka, for the appellants.

Malcolm L. Copeland, assistant district attorney, Gene M. Olander, district attorney, and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, for the appellee.

Patrick Nichols, staff attorney, for the appellee Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.

Before FOTH, C.J., JEROME HARMAN, Chief Judge Retired, assigned, and FREDERICK WOLESLAGEL, District Judge Retired, assigned.


HARMAN, C.J. Retired:

We treat here the standing of foster parents of a deprived child to intervene and participate in a hearing wherein the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services proposed that a child in its custody be placed in the home of a natural parent.

On January 20, 1979, two-year-old Walter Shelton was seriously burned in a fire at his home in Topeka, Kansas, where he lived with his mother...

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