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Ind. Code § 34-49-5-3

Amount of appeal bond

As added by P.L.46-2002, SEC.1.

Sec. 3. (a) An appeal bond that an appellant must post to stay execution on a judgment while an appeal is pending may not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) regardless of the total amount of the judgment.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), if an appellee proves by a preponderance of the evidence that an appellant is dissipating assets outside the ordinary course of business to avoid payment of a judgment, a court may enter orders that:

(1) are necessary to protect the appellee; and

(2) require the appellant to post a bond that is equal to the total amount of the judgment.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.