Sec. 12. This chapter is declared to be remedial. The purpose of this chapter is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
Ind. Code § 34-14-1-12
Purpose of chapter
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 34-14-1-1 to 34-14-1-9 (16 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Ferrell v. Dunescape Beach Club Condominiums Phase I, Inc. (2001)
Most recently applied in Kirby v. State (April 2018)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.9.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.