Adoption; effect on visitation rights
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case In Re the Adoption of a Child by W.P. (2000)
Most recently applied in Robert Walker and Patricia Walker v. Megan (Buckner) Knight Robert Walker and Patricia Walker v. Ashley Erin Carpenter (January 2019)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.9.
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. 9. Visitation rights provided for in section 1 or 10 of this chapter survive the adoption of the child by any of the following:
(1) A stepparent.
(2) A person who is biologically related to the child as:
(A) a grandparent;
(B) a sibling;
(C) an aunt;
(D) an uncle;
(E) a niece; or
(F) a nephew.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.