Causes of action abolished
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Fitch v. Valentine (2007)
Most recently applied in Tina L. Hemingway v. John P. Scott (December 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.7.
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. 1. (a) The following civil causes of action are abolished:
(1) Breach of promise to marry.
(2) Alienation of affections.
(3) Criminal conversation.
(4) Seduction of any female person of at least eighteen (18) years of age.
(b) This section does not affect a cause of action described in subsection (a) that accrued before June 10, 1935.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.