This is the final installment of the Legislative Update for the 2019 legislative session. This installment contains summaries of select bills of interest or portions of bills that were signed into law in the 2019 legislative session. Civil Anatomical gifts and individuals with disabilities (S.E.A. 112, P.L. 2) Fertility fraud and deception (S.E.A. 174, P.L. 215) Nonconsensual … [Read more...] about 2019 Legislative Session Digest
Family
Copies of identifying adoption information
S.E.A. 197, P.L. 217 Effective: July 1, 2019 Provides that a person releasing identifying adoption information must, upon request by the individual requesting the identifying information, provide copies of the identifying information to the individual. Makes a correction regarding exceptions to the release of identifying information. Read the bill at: … [Read more...] about Copies of identifying adoption information
Child support modification
S.E.A. 206, P.L. 99 Effective: July 1, 2019 Amends Ind. Code § 31-16-8-1 to clarify the definition of an order modifying child support for purposes of calculating when a modification can be properly filed without violating the 12-month waiting period. Read the bill at: http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/206 … [Read more...] about Child support modification
Notice and hearings on child relocation
S.E.A. 292, P.L. 186 Effective: July 1, 2019 Amends Ind. Code §§ 31-9-2-83, 84.6, 84.7, 107.5 & 107.7 to clarify in definitions that new relocation of a child procedures apply in cases in which custody and parenting time orders exist, including paternity affidavits. Repeals Ind. Code § 31-14-13-10. Amends Ind. Code §§ 31-14-13-10.2 and 31-17-2.2-0.5, to require parties to sha … [Read more...] about Notice and hearings on child relocation
Parenting time
S.E.A. 323, P.L. 223 Effective: July 1, 2019 Authorizes a court to require a parent to submit to drug testing as a condition of exercising parenting time rights if the court finds that: (1) the parent has a history of unlawful drug use within the previous five years; or (2) there is a reasonable likelihood that the parent is currently using unlawful drugs. Specifies that the parent … [Read more...] about Parenting time