Clerk of the Appellate Courts: Filing an Appeal (Kansas)

The Kansas Clerk of the Appellate Courts, who serves as clerk for both the Kansas Supreme Court and the Kansas Court of Appeals, maintains this page on filing an appeal. It identifies the Appellate Procedure Outline, published by the Clerk of the Appellate Courts Office, as a streamlined guide to appellate procedure for people who are not attorneys and are representing themselves in an appeal, and points to the Kansas Appellate Practice Handbook from the Kansas Judicial Council for detailed guidance and a set of appellate pleading forms in chapter 12. Its filing tips state that every filing must include the appellate case number and a signed, dated Certificate of Service on all parties or their counsel, that responses to court orders must be in pleading form, and that mail time is not added to a court-ordered due date. The page notes that case initiation by eFile is now mandatory, that clerk staff can answer procedural but not legal questions, and gives the office address at 301 SW 10th Ave., Room 107, Topeka.