Chapter 20, COURTS

20-165. Rules establishing child support guidelines; factors to be considered; calculation of support for an unborn child; definitions. (a) The supreme court shall adopt rules establishing guidelines for the amount of child support to be ordered in any action in this state includ…

20-166. Access to justice fund; expenditures; grant guidelines established by the supreme court. (a) There is hereby created in the state treasury the access to justice fund. Money credited to the fund shall be used solely for the purpose of making grants for operating expenses t…

20-167. Supervision fee for juvenile offender; fees paid to county general fund; waiver. (a) The supreme court may establish a supervision fee schedule to be charged to a juvenile offender, or the parent or guardian of such juvenile offender, if the juvenile offender is under the…

20-168. Seal of justice for supreme court courtroom; replica of seal in supreme court chamber in capitol; gifts and donations, disposition; assistance by secretary of administration. In addition to the other purposes for which expenditures may be made from the moneys appropriated…

20-169. Collection of debts owed to courts or restitution; duties of judicial administrator; contracts for collection. (a) The judicial administrator is authorized to enter into contracts in accordance with this section for collection services for debts owed to courts or restitut…

20-170. Clerk; duty to maintain roster of attorneys; eligibility to nominate or cast ballots for supreme court nominating commission; transmission of roster to secretary of state; open record. (a) The clerk of the supreme court shall maintain in the clerk's office a roster of att…

20-171. Severability of the provisions of chapter 93 of the 2016 Session Laws of Kansas. If any provision of this bill or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect …

20-172. Orders issued by chief justice to secure health and safety or expeditiously resolve cases; suspension of deadlines or time limitations during a state of disaster emergency or state of local disaster emergency; authorized use of two-way electronic audio-visual communicatio…

20-173. Specialty court programs; rules; specialty court funding advisory committee; duties, membership, compensation; specialty court resources fund; program completion, reduction or modification of sentence. (a) The supreme court shall adopt rules for the establishment and oper…

20-1a01. Bar discipline program; use and disposition of moneys received; expenditures; bar discipline fee fund; subject to post audit. The clerk of the supreme court shall remit all moneys received by or for such clerk from fees, costs, other charges or penalties of the state boa…

20-1a02. Examination of certified shorthand reporters; use and disposition of moneys received; court reporters fee fund; expenditures; compensation of board of examiners. The clerk of the supreme court shall remit all moneys received by or for such clerk from applicants for exami…

20-1a03. Admission to practice law; use and disposition of moneys received; bar admission fee fund; expenditures; compensation of board of law examiners. The clerk of the supreme court shall remit all moneys received by or for such clerk from applicants for admission to the pract…

20-1a04. Clerk of the supreme court to remit moneys to state treasurer; exceptions; disposition of funds. The clerk of the supreme court shall remit all moneys received by or for such clerk for docket fees, and all amounts received for other purposes than those specified in K.S.A…

20-1a05. Expenditures by supreme court. Expenditures of the supreme court shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chief justice of the supreme court or by a person or per…

20-1a06. Temporary deposits in bank account by clerk of supreme court; expenditures; subject to post audit. The clerk of the supreme court may temporarily deposit all moneys received by or for him from bar applicants, and other amounts specified by order of the supreme court to b…

20-1a07. Frequency of remittance of funds. Except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 20-1a06, nothing in this act shall be deemed to authorize remittances to be made less frequently than is authorized under K.S.A. 75-4215. History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 7; July 1.

20-1a11. Judicial branch education fund; receipts; expenditures; municipal judge training fund abolished. (a) There is hereby created in the state treasury a judicial branch education fund. (b) All money credited to the fund shall be used for the purpose of educating and training…

20-1a12. Judiciary technology fund; fund use; expenditures. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury a judiciary technology fund. (b) Moneys in the judiciary technology fund shall be used to: (1) Establish, operate and maintain a state-wide system of electronic remot…

20-1a13. Courts accept credit cards to collect fees. The judicial administrator of the courts shall contract with credit card companies to provide for collection of bank card drafts from valid and unexpired credit cards used to pay for any docket fee, filing fee, fax service char…

20-1a14. Judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund. (b) All moneys credited to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary…

20-1a15. Judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund. (b) All moneys credited to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary…

20-1a17. Nonseverable provision. The provisions of this act* are not severable. If any provision of this act is stayed or is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, it shall be presumed conclusively that the legislature would not have enacted the remainder of such act without suc…

20-1a19. Severability of chapter 81 of the 2015 Session Laws of Kansas. The provisions of 2015 House Bill No. 2005, chapter 81 of the 2015 Session Laws of Kansas, are severable. If any provision of 2015 House Bill No. 2005, chapter 81 of the 2015 Session Laws of Kansas, is held t…

20-1a20. Electronic filing and management fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund. There is hereby created in the state treasury the electronic filing and management fund. All expenditures from the electronic filing and management fund shall be for purposes of creating, …

20-201. Oath of reporter. The reporter of the supreme court, appointed by the judges of said court according to the provisions of the constitution, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, and within thirty days of his appointment, take and subscribe the oath of offi…

20-202. Notes of decisions. It shall be the duty of the justices of the supreme court to prepare and deliver to the reporter full notes of all decisions made by them, which they shall deem of sufficient importance to publish, within sixty days after the close of the term at which…

20-203. Syllabus of points of law. A syllabus of the points of law decided in any case in the supreme court shall be stated in writing by the judge delivering the opinion of the court, which shall be confined to points of law arising from the facts in the case, that have been det…

20-204. Duties in preparing reports. The reporter shall prepare all such decisions for publication. The report of each case shall contain the title of the case, a syllabus of the points decided, a statement of so much of the facts of the case as may be necessary to understand the…

20-205. Publication of supreme court and court of appeals cases. The cases decided by the supreme court of this state which the court deem of sufficient importance to be published and those of the court of appeals which are to be published pursuant to rule of the supreme court sh…

20-206. Copyright of reports. The reporter shall cause each volume of reports hereafter published to be copyrighted for the use and benefit of the state of Kansas; and all papers and certificates relating to such copyright shall be filed and preserved in the office of the secreta…

20-207. Delivery of court reports to state law librarian. The director of printing shall hereafter deliver the whole number of copies of reports of the supreme court and court of appeals required to be published to the state law librarian as soon as completed; and when the whole …

20-208. Exchanges, distribution and sale of Kansas reports; preservation of proofs, matrices, plates, computer tapes and impressions; use for computerized legal research. (a) When the reports of the decisions of the supreme court or court of appeals are delivered, the state law l…

20-208b. Distribution of supreme court reports to legislative coordinating council. The state law librarian shall provide the legislative coordinating council with the number of complete sets of available Kansas reports necessary to conduct the official business of the legislativ…

20-209. Set of Kansas reports for each district judge position; duties of clerk of district court. Whenever a new district judge position is created, the state law librarian shall provide a complete set of available Kansas reports to the clerk of the district court of the county …

20-210. Replacement without charge, when. The state law librarian is hereby authorized to replace without charge volumes of the Kansas reports which have been destroyed by fire, flood or other natural catastrophe, only if the same were originally delivered to and in the custody o…

20-211. Advance sheets; distribution and sale; subscription to advance sheets and permanent report; withholding opinions; removal of advance sheets from inventories upon publication of bound volume. The state law librarian shall have authority to order advance sheets of the repor…

20-212. Sale of courts of appeals reports and Wyandotte constitutional convention proceedings. The state law librarian is authorized and directed to sell the Kansas courts of appeals reports and proceedings and debates of the Wyandotte constitutional convention now in his hands a…

20-213. Sale of reports; disposition of moneys; library report fee fund. The state law librarian shall remit all moneys received by or for such librarian from the sale of reports of the supreme court and from the sale of court of appeals reports to the state treasurer in accordan…

20-301. District court in each county; jurisdiction. There shall be in each county a district court, which shall be a court of record, and shall have general original jurisdiction of all matters, both civil and criminal, unless otherwise provided by law, and also shall have such …

20-301a. Classes of judges; judge of the district court defined; jurisdiction, power and authority. There shall be two classes of judges of the district courts established pursuant to K.S.A. 20-301: District judges and district magistrate judges. As used in this act, "judge of th…

20-301b. Judge required in each county. In each county of this state there shall be at least one judge of the district court who is a resident of and has the judge's principal office in that county. History: L. 1983, ch. 105, § 12; L. 1984, ch. 111, § 1; July 1.

20-302. District judges; power and authority. The district judge provided for in the Kansas constitution shall have and exercise the full judicial power and authority of a district court. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 28, § 2; R.S. 1923, 20-302; L. 1965, ch. 214, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 146,…

20-302b. District magistrate judges; jurisdiction, powers and duties; record; appeals. (a) Subject to assignment pursuant to K.S.A. 20-329, and amendments thereto, a district magistrate judge shall have the jurisdiction and power, in any case in which a violation of the laws of t…

20-303. Seal. The secretary of state shall furnish each county organized for judicial purposes, a seal for the district court, which shall contain the words, "District court, ______ county, Kansas," inserting the name of the county —which seal shall remain in the custody of the c…

20-304a. Sealed instruments validated. That all official instruments to which the seal of the district court of any county in this state has been attached by the proper official, wherein the said seal purports to be the seal of the clerk of the district court instead of the seal …

20-310a. Appointments of judges pro tem; power and authority; compensation; reporting requirements. (a) Subject to the budget limitations of the district court, the chief judge of any judicial district may appoint a judge pro tem within such judicial district: (1) For good cause …

20-310b. Temporary judges. (a) Upon stipulation of the parties to an action, the court may order the action to be heard and determined by a temporary judge who is a retired justice of the supreme court, retired judge of the court of appeals or retired judge of the district court.…

20-311. Disqualification of judge to sit in certain cases. In any contested civil or criminal case before a district court of this state, if any attorney of record or any party to such case is related, by blood or marriage to the judge before whom the same is pending, as a spouse…

20-311d. Change of judge; procedure; grounds. (a) If a party or a party's attorney believes that the judge to whom an action is assigned cannot afford that party a fair trial in the action, the party or attorney may file a motion for change of judge. The motion shall not state th…

20-311e. Same; punishment for contempt prohibited. No judge or court shall punish for contempt anyone making, filing or presenting the affidavit provided for by K.S.A. 20-311d or any motion founded thereon. History: L. 1971, ch. 198, § 4; July 1. Law Review and Bar Journal Refere…