In the Interest of K.E.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nuss, C.J.:

The issue in this case is whether a trial court constitutionally erred in denying a father s last-minute request to provide his testimony by telephone from Georgia in a Kansas hearing to terminate his parental rights. The trial court held that without this testimony, the father then failed to rebut the presumption of *18his parental unfitness established by the State’s evidence. His parental rights therefore were terminated.

A majority of the Court of Appeals panel agreed with the father’s claim that the trial court’s ruling denied him…