Persons entitled to representation by counsel
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Baker v. Marion County Office of Family & Children (2004)
Most recently applied in In the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of: X.S. (Minor Child), and S.S. (Father) v. The Indiana Department of Child Services, and Lake County Court Appointed Special Advocate (mem. dec.) (December 2018)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.15.
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. The following persons are entitled to be represented by counsel:
(1) A child charged with a delinquent act, as provided by IC 31-32-2-2.
(2) A parent, in a proceeding to terminate the parent-child relationship, as provided by IC 31-32-2-5.
(3) Any other person designated by law.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.