Consent to adoption by petitioner's spouse
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In Re Infant Girl W. (2006)
Most recently applied in In the Matter of the Adoption Of: Atws, Minor Child, Ka v. (May 2021)
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. 4. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a petition for adoption by a married person may not be granted unless the husband and wife join in the action.
(b) If the petitioner for adoption is married to the:
(1) biological; or
(2) adoptive;
father or mother of the child, joinder by the father or mother is not necessary if an acknowledged consent to adoption of the biological or adoptive parent is filed with the petition for adoption.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.