Sec. 1. The general assembly favors the public policy of establishing paternity under this article of a child born out of wedlock.
Ind. Code § 31-14-1-1
Public policy regarding establishment of paternity
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case In Re the Paternity of E.M.L.G. (2007)
Most recently applied in In Re: The Paternity of I.I.P.: Kailei L. Poteet v. Justin Rodgers and Nathan T. Poteet (January 2018)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.