Sec. 10. An action to enforce a child support obligation must be commenced not later than ten (10) years after:
(1) the eighteenth birthday of the child; or
(2) the emancipation of the child;
whichever occurs first.
Enforcement of child support obligations
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 130 N.C. App. 552 - State Ex Rel. Albemarle Child Support Enforcement Agency Ex Rel. George v. Bray (1998)
Most recently applied in Bell v. Heflin (November 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
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. 10. An action to enforce a child support obligation must be commenced not later than ten (10) years after:
(1) the eighteenth birthday of the child; or
(2) the emancipation of the child;
whichever occurs first.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.