"Home state"
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Stewart v. Vulliet (2008)
Most recently applied in in Int. of B.H (June 2021)
As added by P.L.138-2007, SEC.45.
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. 8. "Home state" means the state in which a child lived with:
(1) a parent; or
(2) a person acting as a parent;
for at least six (6) consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. In the case of a child less than six (6) months of age, the term means the state in which the child lived since birth with a parent or person acting as a parent. A period of temporary absence of the parent or person acting as a parent is part of the period.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.