Your Community - Kansas
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Visit our local HRC steering committee website for Kansas City for updated information on local events, news and opportunities to get involved.
What's Happening in Kansas
Kansas Healthcare Laws
State healthcare laws relating to the LGBT community in the areas of medical decision making and hospital visitation.
Kansas Custody and Visitation Law
There are no published cases dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender parents. State law, however, does not seem to permit the consideration of factors that do not affect the best interests of the child to be used in custody and visitation determinations. There are no reported or published opinions dealing with same-sex co-parents.
Kansas Surrogacy Law
It is unclear how Kansas law would treat a surrogacy agreement that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) individuals because there are no statutes regarding surrogacy. However, two attorney general opinions indicate that surrogate parenting agreements in general are unenforceable in the state.
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