"Hard to place child" or "hard to place children"
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In Re Infant Girl W. (2006)
Most recently applied in M.H. v. C.R. (December 2009)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.1
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. 51. "Hard to place child" or "hard to place children", for purposes of IC 31-19 and IC 31-34, means a child who is or children who are disadvantaged:
(1) because of:
(A) ethnic background;
(B) race;
(C) color;
(D) language;
(E) physical, mental, or medical disability; or
(F) age; or
(2) because the child or children are members of a sibling group that should be placed in the same home.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.