There are a few counties in Kansas who have published Family law Guidelines or Custody Guidelines. These seem harmless and a way to keep consistency. However, the problem is that state-wide, they are not consistent. They also inherently invite prejudgement of noncustodial parents. KSA 60-1610 does not give preference to which parent should be custodial or if both should have custody equally. But, by having custody guidelines, there is virtually no chance of a parent getting a fair shake because all judges just look in the book rather than looking at what's right.
Further, the method by which such guidelines are developed is top secret. We can call them pseudo-laws and they are developed by a hand picked group of judges and attorneys (that's it!). So, the judges and attorneys you deal with all the time have prejudged your case before you ever arrived, and they all know exactly how it will turn out before the day is over. Not fair.
Legislation needs to be in place to either a.) mandate that any and all meetings of such committees must be open to the public and all meeting minutes must be published and any such guideline must be approved by a team of legislators, or b.) mandate that no such guideline may exist because it attempts to overrule KSA 60-1610.