Postadoption contact privileges granted to birth parent
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Sexton v. Rowe (2000)
Most recently applied in In Re MB (November 2009)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.11
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. At the time an adoption decree is entered, the court entering the adoption decree may grant postadoption contact privileges under section 2 of this chapter to a birth parent who has:
(1) consented to the adoption; or
(2) voluntarily terminated the parent-child relationship.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.