Modification of child custody order
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Rea v. Shroyer (2003)
Most recently applied in In Re: the Guardianship of M.N.S. J.L.M. v. M.S.S (December 2014)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6
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.
Sec. 6. The court may not modify a child custody order unless:
(1) modification is in the best interests of the child; and
(2) there is a substantial change in one (1) or more of the factors that the court may consider under section 2 and, if applicable, section 2.5 of this chapter.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.