Chapter

Definitions

Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.2— Application of certain amendments to prior law
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.3— "Abandoned"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.4— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.5— "Abandoned infant"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.7— "Account"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.8— "Active duty"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-0.9— "Act of rape"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-1— "Actual notice"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-2— "Adoptee"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-3— "Adoption"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-4— "Adoption assistance state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-5— "Adoption history"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-5.5— "Adoption subsidy"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-6— "Adoptive parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-7— "Adult"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-8— "Advisory board"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-8.5— "Age or developmentally appropriate"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9— "Alleged father"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.3— "Applicant"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.4— "Application"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.5— "Appropriate public authorities"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.6— "Assessment"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.7— "Assistance"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-9.9— "At-risk child" or "at-risk children"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-10— "Birth parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-10.3— "Blind"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-10.6— "Board"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-10.8— "Bureau"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-10.9— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-11— "Caseworker"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-11.1— "Case"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-12— "Center"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-12.5— "Central authority"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-13— "Child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-14— "Child abuse or neglect"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-14.2— "Child advocacy center"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-14.5— "Child at imminent risk of placement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-15— "Child born in wedlock"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16— "Child born out of wedlock"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.3— "Child care"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.4— "Child caregiver"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.5— "Child care provider"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.6— "Child care worker"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.7— "Child caring institution"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.8— "Child custody determination"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-16.9— "Child custody proceeding"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-17— "Child in need of services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-17.5— "Child placing agency"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-17.8— "Child services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-18— "Child support guidelines"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-19— "Child support order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-19.3— "Child welfare agency"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-19.5— "Child welfare services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-19.6— "Child welfare program"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-20— "Child with a disability"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-20.3— "Child with special needs"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-20.5— "Commencement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-21— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-22— "Compact"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-22.1— "Concurrent planning"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-22.5— "Conduct a criminal history check"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-23— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-23.7— "Contact"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-23.8— "Contact preference form"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-24— "Controlled substance"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-24.2— "Convention"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-24.3— "Convention support order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-24.5— "Costs of secure detention"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-25— "Council"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-26— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-27— "Court"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-28— "Court appointed special advocate"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-29— "Crime"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-29.5— "Crime involving domestic or family violence"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-29.7— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-30— "Custodial parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-31— "Custodian"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-32— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-33— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-34— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-35— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-35.5— "De facto custodian"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-36— "Delinquent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-37— "Delinquent child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-38— "Delinquent juvenile"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-38.5— "Department"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-39— "Dependent child" or "neglected child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-39.5— "Destitute child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-39.7— "Detention tool"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-39.8— "Diagnostic assessment"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-40— "Director"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-40.5— "Direct request"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-41— "Dissolution decree"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-41.2— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-42— "Domestic or family violence"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-42.3— "Drug or alcohol screen test"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43— "Duty of support"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43.2— "Early intervention advocate"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43.3— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43.5— "Emergency medical services provider"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43.6— "Emergency shelter"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-43.8— "Evaluator"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-44— "Executive authority"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-44.1— "Exigent circumstances"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-44.3— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-44.5— "Family or household member"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-44.8— "Family preservation services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-45— "Family services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-45.5— "Fentanyl containing substance"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-45.6— "Fentanyl related substance"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-45.9— "Final agency action"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46— "Final separation"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.1— "Foreign central authority"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.2— "Foreign country"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.3— "Foreign support agreement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.4— "Foreign support order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.5— "Financial institution"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.6— "Foreign tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.7— "Foster care"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-46.9— "Foster family home"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-47— "Foster parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-47.1— "Forensic interview"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-47.3— "Foster youth"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-47.6— "Fund"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-47.9— "Governmental entity"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-48— "Governor"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-48.3— "Grandparent visitation"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-48.5— "Group home"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-49— "Guardian"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-50— "Guardian ad litem"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-51— "Hard to place child" or "hard to place children"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-51.9— "Health care"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-52— "Health care provider"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-53— "Home state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-54— "Identifying information"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-54.5— "Incapacitated person"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-54.7— "Incarceration"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-55— "Includes"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-56— "Income"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-57— "Income payor"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-58— "Income withholding order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-58.3— "Index"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-58.4— "Indian child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-58.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-59— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-59.5— "Initial determination"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-60— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-61— "Initiating tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-62— "Intake officer"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-63— "Intended biological parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-64— "Interested person"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-64.5— "Issuing court"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-64.7— "Issuing foreign country"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-65— "Issuing state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-66— "Issuing tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-67— "Joint legal custody"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-68— "Judge"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-69— "Juvenile"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-70— "Juvenile court"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-71— "Juvenile detention facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-71.5— "Juvenile diversion"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-72— "Juvenile law"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-72.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-72.6— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-72.7— "Kinship care navigator program"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-73— "Law"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-74— "Law enforcement agency"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-75— "Legal settlement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76— "Legend drug"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.2— "Licensed kinship caregiver"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.3— "Licensee"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.4— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.5— "Long term foster parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.6— "Local office"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.7— "Lifetime sex or violent offender"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-76.8— "Local law enforcement authority"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-77— "Maternal or paternal grandparent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-78— "Medical history"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-79— "Medical information"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-80— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-80.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-80.8— "Modification"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-81— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-81.5— "Monitor"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-82— "Neglected child" or "dependent child"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-83— "Noncustodial parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-84— "Nonidentifying information"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-84.6— "Nonrelocating individual"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-84.7— "Nonrelocating parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-84.8— "Nonwaivable offense"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-85— "Obligee"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-86— "Obligor"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-86.5— "Office of administrative law proceedings"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-87— "Omission"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-87.5— "Outside this state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-88— "Parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-88.5— "Parenting time"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-88.7— "Permanency roundtable"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-89— "Person"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-90— "Person acting as parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-91— "Petitioner"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-92— "Physical custody"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-92.5— "Plan"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-93— "Pre-adoptive sibling"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-94— "Preliminary inquiry"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-95— "Premarital agreement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-95.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-96— "Prior family law and juvenile law"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-96.5— "Private secure facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-97— "Probation or parole"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-97.4— "Professional health care provider"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-97.6— "Project"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-98— "Property"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-99— "Prosecuting attorney"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-99.2— "Prospective adoptive parent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-99.3— "Provider"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-99.7— "Public welfare"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-100— "Putative father"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-100.5— "Qualified medical practitioner"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-101— "Reason to believe"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-101.5— "Reasonable and prudent parent standard"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-102— "Receiving state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-102.5— "Recipient"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-102.7— "Record"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-103— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-103.6— "Region"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-103.7— "Regional services council"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-104— "Register"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-105— "Registering tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-106— "Registry"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-106.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-107— "Relative"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-107.5— "Relocating individual"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-107.7— "Relocation"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-108— "Residence"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-109— "Residence state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-109.5— "Residential placement committee"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-110— "Respondent"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-111— "Responding state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-112— "Responding tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-112.3— "Restorative justice"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-112.5— "Risk and needs assessment tool"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-112.8— "Risk screening tool"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-113— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-113.1— "Safe haven infant"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-113.5— "School"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-113.7— "Secure detention facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-114— "Secure facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-115— "Secure private facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-116— "Sending state"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-116.4— "Services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-116.5— "Services or items"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-117— "Shelter care facility"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-117.3— "Sibling"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-117.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-118— "Spousal support order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-119— "State"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-120— "State department"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-121— "State registrar"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-121.5— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-122— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-122.5— "STEVE system"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-122.9— "Substantially burden"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-123— "Substantiated"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-123.5— "Successful adulthood services"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-123.7— "Supervised independent living arrangement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-124— "Support enforcement agency"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-125— "Support order"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-126— "Surrogate"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-127— "Surrogate agreement"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-128— Repealed
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-129— "Team"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-129.5— "Therapeutic foster family home"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-130— "Title IV-D agency"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-130.2— "Title IV-D case"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-130.3— "Transitional services plan"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-130.5— "Tribe"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-131— "Tribunal"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-131.3— "Ultimate authority of the department"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-131.5— "United States central authority"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-131.7— "Unlicensed kinship caregiver"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-132— "Unsubstantiated"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-133— "Victim of child abuse or neglect"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-133.1— "Victim of human or sexual trafficking"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-134— "Voluntary information"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-134.5— "Wardship"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-135— "Warrant"
Ind. Code § 31-9-2-136— "Youth service bureau"