"Parent"
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case C.M.L. Ex Rel. Brabant v. Republic Services, Inc. (2003)
Most recently applied in In Re KD (February 2011)
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. 88. (a) "Parent", for purposes of the juvenile law, means a biological or an adoptive parent. Unless otherwise specified, the term includes both parents, regardless of their marital status.
(b) "Parent", for purposes of IC 31-34-1, IC 31-34-8, IC 31-34-19, IC 31-34-20 and IC 31-35-2, includes an alleged father.
(c) "Parent", for purposes of IC 31-42, means a child's:
(1) biological father or mother;
(2) adopting father or mother; or
(3) court appointed guardian or custodian.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.