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Ind. Code § 31-33-1-1

Purpose of article

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Marybeth Lebo v. State of Indiana (2012)

Most recently applied in John Doe 1 v. Indiana Department of Child Services (May 2016)

As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.16

How often courts cite this section

2010201620
citing decisions per year

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 purpose of this article is to:

(1) encourage effective reporting of suspected or known incidents of child abuse or neglect;

(2) provide effective child services to quickly investigate reports of child abuse or neglect;

(3) provide protection for an abused or a neglected child from further abuse or neglect;

(4) provide rehabilitative services for an abused or a neglected child and the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; and

(5) establish a centralized statewide child abuse registry and an automated child protection system.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.