Order for postadoption sibling contact
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. S.S. (2006)
Most recently applied in In Re the Adoption of: P.A.H., f/k/a P. v. Minor Child, B.D. and L.H.C. v. J.H. (July 2013)
As added by P.L.196-1997, 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 decree may order the adoptive parents to provide specific postadoption contact for an adopted child who is at least two (2) years of age with a pre-adoptive sibling if:
(1) the court determines that the postadoption contact would serve the best interests of the adopted child; and
(2) each adoptive parent consents to the court's order for postadoption contact privileges.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.