STATE EX REL. SEC. DEPT. CHLDRN & FAM. v. MANSON

No. 119,134.

446 P.3d 1074 (2019)

STATE of Kansas, EX REL., SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, and C.M., a Minor Child, by and Through the Mother and Natural Guardian Nikole L. Wilkinson, and Nikole L. Wilkinson, Necessary Third Parties, Appellees, v. Traig J. MANSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 14, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Victoria Chundak , of The Law Firm of Tenopir and Huerter, of Topeka, for appellant.

Philip L. Goetz , contract attorney, Kansas Department for Children and Families, for appellee.

Before Arnold-Burger, C.J., Hill, J., and Stutzman, S.J.


When a man fails to revoke a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity (VAP) form executed under K.S.A. 2018 Supp. 23-2204 within one year of a child's birth, a permanent father and child relationship is created between the man who signed the VAP and the child that cannot be rebutted by genetic testing.

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