Form K.s.a. 59-2124 - Notice To Parent Or Person Page 4

order to be effective. In re Baby Boy N.,19 Kan. App.2d 574, 874 P.2d 680 (1994) (construing K.S.A. 59-2124(a)).

Voluntary relinquishment of parental rights and acceptance by an adoption agency terminates parental

rights and obligations, including the obligation to pay child support. Secretary of SRS v. Clear, 248 Kan. 109,

804 P.2d 961 (1991). However, a decree of adoption does not relieve a parent of his or her obligation to pay the

child support due and owing at the time of the adoption. Child support arrearages which have been reduced to

judgment are not extinguished or canceled by termination of parental rights. Michels v. Weingartner 254 Kan. 44,

49, 864 P.2d 1189 (1993).

It has been held that statutory relinquishment authorizes divestiture of parents' rights, and must be strictly

construed in favor of maintaining those rights. Wilson v. Kansas Children's Home, 159 Kan. 325, 329-30, 154 P.2d

137 (1944) (construing G.S.1935, 38-113, the predecessor of K.S.A. 59-2124).

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