IN RE ADOPTION OF BABY GIRL P.

No. 102,287.

242 P.3d 1168 (2010)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF BABY GIRL P.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

October 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zach Chaffee-McClure , of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., of Kansas City, Missouri, argued the cause, and Debra A. Vermillion , of Vermillion Law Office, L.L.C., of Kansas City, Kansas, was with him on the briefs for appellant natural father.

Kevin W. Kenney , of Kevin W. Kenney, P.A., of Prairie Village, argued the cause and was on the briefs for appellees adoptive parents.

Martin W. Bauer , of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P., of Wichita, was on the brief for amicus curiae American Academy of Adoption Attorneys.


The opinion of the court was delivered by ROSEN, J.:

In this case, the courts are again called upon to make the painful determination of whether a child should reside with a natural parent, who has the emotional bonds that follow from biological fatherhood, or with prospective adoptive parents, whose emotional bonds have evolved over many months of loving, supporting, and caring for the child. It is ultimately a legal decision which this court must reach, but it is...

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