Expenses of mother's pregnancy and childbirth
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Meneses v. Legunes (2007)
Most recently applied in In re the Paternity of D.M.: J.W. v. C.M. (May 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. 1. The court shall order the father to pay at least fifty percent (50%) of the reasonable expenses of the mother's pregnancy and childbirth, including the cost of:
(1) prenatal care;
(2) delivery;
(3) hospitalization;
(4) other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the child's birth;
(5) postpartum expenses; and
(6) postnatal care.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.