Citation and construction of act
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case STRYDOM (2011)
Most recently applied in STRYDOM (July 2011)
L. 1979, ch. 92, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 228, § 1; July 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) K.S.A. 60-3101 through 60-3111 , and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the protection from abuse act.
(b) This act shall be liberally construed to promote the protection of victims of domestic violence from bodily injury or threats of bodily injury and to facilitate access to judicial protection for the victims, whether represented by counsel or proceeding pro se.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.