statutory interpretation analysis in Kansas

2025Relying on the statutory interpretation principle that a more specific statute controls over a general one unless it appears the Legislature intended otherwise, we found that in child custody hearings the provisions of K.S.A. 60-1615 governing admissibility of reports supplanted the evidentiary rules in the hearsay statute, K.S.A. 60-460. 13 Kan.

2021In State v. Arnett, 314 Kan. 183 , 496 P.3d 928 (2021), our Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of portions of the criminal restitution statutes in Kansas.

2014Instead, it simply decided that a postnuptial agreement entered under such circumstances would not qualify as a separation agreement under K.S.A. 60-1610(b)(3) “because the statute governing separation agreements is part of the Kansas statutory scheme controlling dissolution of marriage.” 48 Kan.

2014Instead, it simply decided that a postnuptial agreement entered under such circumstances would not qualify as a separation agreement under K.S.A. 60-1610(b)(3) "because the statute governing separation agreements is part of the Kansas statutory scheme controlling dissolution of marriage." 48 Kan.

1999App. 2d 696 , 971 P.2d 749 (1999), although relating to the offense of driving with a suspended license, requires a “prior conviction” to be construed as one which occurred prior to sentencing in the current case regardless of the time that the offense that led to the conviction occurred. *407 We commence our analysis with the basic statutory interpretation rule that " ‘[i]n construing statutes, the legislative intention is to be determined from a general consideration of the entire act.