Judgment; order of predisposition report; scheduling of dispositional hearing; dual status assessment team report and recommendations
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Bailey v. Indiana Newspapers, Inc. (2008)
Most recently applied in In re the Matter of: R.H. (Minor Child) and T.H. (Mother) v. The Ind. Dept. of Child Services (May 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.17
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. 2. (a) If the court finds that a child is a child in need of services, the court shall:
(1) enter judgment accordingly;
(2) order a predisposition report;
(3) schedule a dispositional hearing; and
(4) complete a dual status screening tool on the child, as described in IC 31-41-1-3.
(b) If a court determines a child is a dual status child, the court may refer the child for an assessment by a dual status assessment team as described in IC 31-41-1-5.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.