Indiana Code — 31
Browse 2,074 sections in division 31 of the Indiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 31-9-1-1. Applicability of definitions
- § 31-9-1-2. Inapplicability of definitions
- § 31-10-1-1. Purpose of recodification act
- § 31-10-1-2. Statutory construction
- § 31-10-1-3. Effect on existing rights and liabilities
- § 31-10-1-4. Recodification of prior family law and juvenile law
- § 31-10-1-5. References to repealed or replaced statutes
- § 31-10-1-6. References to provisions of recodification act
- § 31-10-1-7. References to rules
- § 31-10-1-8. References to provisions of prior family law and juvenile law
- § 31-10-2-1. Policy and purpose
- § 31-10-2-1.5. Consideration of child's safety preeminent in determination of child's best interests
- § 31-10-2-2. Consideration of the best interests of the child
- § 31-10-2-3. Rights of persons with a disability
- § 31-11-1-1. Same sex marriages prohibited
- § 31-11-1-2. Marriage to close relative prohibited; marriages between cousins; exceptions
- § 31-11-1-3. Bigamous marriages prohibited
- § 31-11-1-4. Minimum age for marriage
- § 31-11-1-5. Marriage of individual 16 or 17 years of age
- § 31-11-1-6. Repealed
- § 31-11-1-7. Petition for marriage of individual 16 or 17 years of age; evidentiary hearing; emancipation
- § 31-11-3-1. Applicability of chapter
- § 31-11-3-2. "Premarital agreement" defined
- § 31-11-3-3. "Property" defined
- § 31-11-3-4. Agreement must be in writing; consideration not required
- § 31-11-3-5. Content; child support unaffected
- § 31-11-3-5.5. Portability agreement
- § 31-11-3-6. Effective date
- § 31-11-3-7. Amendment or revocation must be in writing; consideration not required
- § 31-11-3-8. Enforceability of agreement
- § 31-11-3-9. Effect of void marriage
- § 31-11-3-10. Tolling of statute of limitations during marriage; equitable defenses
- § 31-11-4-0.2. Effect of enactment of prior law
- § 31-11-4-0.3. Legalization of court orders relating to certain marriages; issuance of duplicate license; Indiana department of health shall accept order
- § 31-11-4-0.4. Legalization of certain marriage licenses issued after August 31, 1984, and before April 16, 1985
- § 31-11-4-1. Marriage license required to marry
- § 31-11-4-2. Prerequisites for issuance of marriage license
- § 31-11-4-3. County of residence or solemnization; place to obtain license
- § 31-11-4-4. Application; sexually transmitted diseases acknowledgment; lifetime sex or violent offender; religious objections
- § 31-11-4-5. Distribution of information concerning serious communicable diseases that are sexually transmitted
- § 31-11-4-6. Proof of birth date
- § 31-11-4-7. Birth date information required for issuance of marriage license
- § 31-11-4-8. Repealed
- § 31-11-4-9. Expiration of application
- § 31-11-4-10. Expiration of license
- § 31-11-4-11. Conditions precluding issuance of marriage license
- § 31-11-4-12. Refusal to issue marriage license; notice; hearing; finding; costs
- § 31-11-4-13. Duty to present marriage license to individual authorized to solemnize marriages
- § 31-11-4-14. Marriage license as authorization of solemnization of marriage
- § 31-11-4-15. Marriage certificates
- § 31-11-4-16. Completion, disposition, filing, and recording of marriage certificates and marriage licenses
- § 31-11-4-17. Failure to file marriage certificates and marriage licenses; declaratory order upon proof of marriage; legal effect; recording requirements
- § 31-11-4-18. Records of marriage; paper or electronic forms; index
- § 31-11-4-19. Public inspection of statistical data from marriage records
- § 31-11-6-1. Persons authorized to solemnize marriages
- § 31-11-7-1. Abolition of legal disabilities of married women to make contracts
- § 31-11-7-2. Married women's property rights
- § 31-11-7-3. Tort liability of married women
- § 31-11-7-4. Husband's immunity for wife's contracts or torts
- § 31-11-7-5. Portability agreement and portability election; obligation of surviving spouse or the personal representative of deceased spouse; petition for special administrator
- § 31-11-8-0.3. Legalization of certain marriages between first cousins
- § 31-11-8-1. Marriages void without legal proceedings
- § 31-11-8-2. Prior existing marriage
- § 31-11-8-3. Marriage to close relative; marriages between cousins; exceptions
- § 31-11-8-4. Mentally incompetent persons
- § 31-11-8-5. Common law marriages entered into after January 1, 1958
- § 31-11-8-6. Foreign marriage solemnized between Indiana residents to evade Indiana law
- § 31-11-9-1. Actions to annul voidable marriages
- § 31-11-9-2. Incapacity to marry because of age or mental incompetence
- § 31-11-9-3. Fraud
- § 31-11-10-0.3. Legalization of certain judgments for annulment of marriage
- § 31-11-10-1. Action by party incapable of contracting marriage; petition filed by guardian
- § 31-11-10-2. Action by victim of fraud; defense
- § 31-11-10-3. Jurisdiction
- § 31-11-10-4. Procedure; filing in county of guardian's residence
- § 31-11-11-1. False information in marriage license application
- § 31-11-11-2. Repealed
- § 31-11-11-3. False information concerning applicant's physical condition
- § 31-11-11-4. Acceptance of false information concerning applicant's physical condition
- § 31-11-11-5. Solemnization of marriage in violation of this article
- § 31-11-11-6. Attempt to solemnize marriage by person not authorized to solemnize marriages
- § 31-11-11-7. Solemnization of marriage between persons prohibited from marrying
- § 31-11-11-8. Failure to timely file marriage license and duplicate marriage certificate
- § 31-12-1-1. Determination of necessity to establish court
- § 31-12-1-2. Designation of judges; sessions of court
- § 31-12-1-3. Designation of court
- § 31-12-1-4. Jurisdiction; supplemental powers
- § 31-12-1-5. Absence or inability of judge to perform duties; appointment of substitute
- § 31-12-1-6. Duty of clerk of judicial circuit court to file cases in domestic relations court
- § 31-12-1-7. Forms of action; caption
- § 31-12-1-8. Petition invoking jurisdiction for reconciliation or amicable settlement
- § 31-12-1-9. Appointment of referees, counselors, assistants, and clerks; compensation; expenses
- § 31-12-1-10. Referee's duties
- § 31-12-1-11. Counselor's duties
- § 31-12-1-12. Director of domestic relations counseling
- § 31-12-1-13. Counseling service not condonation of acts constituting grounds for dissolution of marriage
- § 31-12-1-14. Private counseling proceedings; confidential communications
- § 31-12-1-15. Setting cause for hearing
- § 31-12-1-16. Court of record
- § 31-12-2-1. Application of law
- § 31-12-2-2. Creation
- § 31-12-2-3. Order compelling party to cooperate in counseling services
- § 31-12-2-4. Actions and proceedings in which counseling services shall be provided; referrals
- § 31-12-2-5. Appointment of referees, counselors, assistants, clerks, and other personnel; compensation; expenses
- § 31-12-2-6. Duties of bureau
- § 31-12-2-7. Counseling service not condonation of acts constituting grounds for divorce or dissolution of marriage
- § 31-12-2-8. Private counseling proceedings; confidential communications
- § 31-12-2-9. Majority decision of judges
- § 31-12-2-10. Rules; special orders
- § 31-12-2-11. Gifts and donations
- § 31-12-2-12. Incorporation of records and property of marriage counseling service into bureau's service
- § 31-12-3-1. Establishment
- § 31-12-3-2. Persons authorized to administer division
- § 31-12-3-3. Services offered by division; conciliation procedures
- § 31-12-4-1. Fees; domestic relations counseling services
- § 31-12-4-2. Domestic relations counseling bureau fund
- § 31-12-4-3. Gifts and donations
- § 31-13-1-1. Parties to marriage more closely related than second cousins
- § 31-13-1-2. Bigamous marriages
- § 31-13-1-3. Child of annulled marriage
- § 31-13-2-1. Petition to establish whether child was born in wedlock; notice; hearing; determination; review
- § 31-13-2-2. Finality of determination; subsequent review on petition of defendant less than 18 years of age at time of determination
- § 31-13-2-3. Child of common law marriage consummated before January 2, 1958
- § 31-13-3-1. Law governing termination
- § 31-14-1-1. Public policy regarding establishment of paternity
- § 31-14-1-2. Legalization of certain paternity and related orders
- § 31-14-2-1. Exclusive methods of establishing paternity
- § 31-14-3-1. Application of Indiana Rules of Civil Procedure
- § 31-14-3-2. Venue
- § 31-14-4-1. Persons permitted to file action
- § 31-14-4-2. Repealed
- § 31-14-4-3. Department or prosecuting attorney permitted to file action
- § 31-14-5-1. Verification of petition; caption
- § 31-14-5-2. Petition by minors and incompetent persons; time for filing petition; tolling of limitations during period of incompetency
- § 31-14-5-3. Time for filing action
- § 31-14-5-4. Action by division or county office of family and children furnishing public assistance; time for filing action
- § 31-14-5-5. Action to be filed during lifetime or within five months of death of alleged father
- § 31-14-5-6. Necessary parties
- § 31-14-5-7. Registration with putative father registry
- § 31-14-5-8. Action not barred by child's death or stillbirth or mother's death
- § 31-14-5-9. Barred from establishing paternity
- § 31-14-6-0.1. Effect of certain amendments to chapter on certain court orders
- § 31-14-6-1. Blood or genetic testing
- § 31-14-6-2. Objections and admissibility
- § 31-14-6-3. Test results; effect; admissibility
- § 31-14-6-4. Costs of blood or genetic testing
- § 31-14-6-5. Chain of custody of blood or genetic specimens taken for testing
- § 31-14-7-1. Presumptions; child's biological father
- § 31-14-7-2. Rebuttable presumption; child's biological father
- § 31-14-7-3. Paternity affidavits
- § 31-14-8-1. Finding of paternity without hearing
- § 31-14-8-2. Default order against alleged father failing to appear at hearing
- § 31-14-8-3. Repealed
- § 31-14-8-4. Continuance of final hearing
- § 31-14-9-0.5. Notice of filing of petition to establish paternity
- § 31-14-9-1. Preparation of record of paternity determination
- § 31-14-9-2. Submission to department
- § 31-14-10-1. Hearing to determine support, custody, and parenting time following initial determination of paternity; order to probation officer to prepare report
- § 31-14-10-2. Consultation with probation officer; referral of child for evaluation
- § 31-14-10-3. Findings and orders without hearing
- § 31-14-11-0.2. Application of certain amendments to prior law
- § 31-14-11-1. Issuance of paternity and child support order upon execution of paternity affidavit
- § 31-14-11-1.1. Temporary order for child support
- § 31-14-11-2. Child support order
- § 31-14-11-2.3. Child support order subject to provisions
- § 31-14-11-2.5. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-3. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-4. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-5. Date for support obligation to begin
- § 31-14-11-6. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-7. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-8. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-9. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-10. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-11. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-12. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-13. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-14. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-15. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-16. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-17. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-18. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-19. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-20. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-21. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-22. Repealed
- § 31-14-11-23. Termination of child support obligation; fraud or mistake of fact
- § 31-14-11-24. Repealed
- § 31-14-13-1. Sole legal custody in biological mother; exceptions
- § 31-14-13-2. Factors of custody determination
- § 31-14-13-2.3. Joint legal custody; finding required for award; factors considered in making award
- § 31-14-13-2.5. Consideration of de facto custodian factors
- § 31-14-13-3. Interview of child in chambers
- § 31-14-13-4. Authority of custodial parent to determine child's upbringing
- § 31-14-13-5. Supervision of placement
- § 31-14-13-6. Modification of child custody order
- § 31-14-13-6.1. Delegation of parenting time during deployment; automatically terminates upon return
- § 31-14-13-6.2. Military duties, expedited hearing; allow evidence by electronic means
- § 31-14-13-6.3. Parent's active duty service not a factor; temporary modification of custody
- § 31-14-13-6.5. Security, bond, or guarantee
- § 31-14-13-6.7. Security, bond, or guarantee; determinations
- § 31-14-13-7. Determination; factors considered
- § 31-14-13-7.5. Court inclusion of written findings in custody order
- § 31-14-13-8. Custody modification proceeding; violation of injunction or temporary restraining order as factor
- § 31-14-13-9. Custody modification proceeding; admissible evidence
- § 31-14-13-10. Repealed
- § 31-14-13-10.2. Notice requirements for persons seeking rights with a child
- § 31-14-13-10.5. Mandatory compliance for nonrelocating and relocating individuals
- § 31-14-13-11. Notice of passport application for child
- § 31-14-13-12. Submissions to the court; court requests for information
- § 31-14-14-0.2. Application of certain amendments to prior law
- § 31-14-14-1. Parenting time rights of noncustodial parent; in chambers interview of child; rebuttable presumption for supervised parenting time
- § 31-14-14-2. Modification or denial of parenting time
- § 31-14-14-2.5. Security, bond, or guarantee
- § 31-14-14-3. Grant or denial of visitation rights to noncustodial parent; effect on visitation rights of grandparent
- § 31-14-14-4. Missed parenting time; noncustodial parent in military
- § 31-14-14-5. Supervised parenting time; conviction of crime involving domestic or family violence; batterer's intervention program
- § 31-14-14-6. Submissions to the court; court requests for information
- § 31-14-15-1. Parenting time rights; permanent injunction against custodial parent
- § 31-14-15-2. Parenting time rights; temporary restraining order against custodial parent
- § 31-14-15-3. Security
- § 31-14-15-4. Remedies for contempt
- § 31-14-15-5. Additional remedies
- § 31-14-16-1. Protective order; procedure
- § 31-14-16-2. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-3. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-4. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-5. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-6. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-7. Repealed
- § 31-14-16-8. Repealed
- § 31-14-17-1. Expenses of mother's pregnancy and childbirth
- § 31-14-18-1. Expenses of medical tests
- § 31-14-18-2. Costs of maintaining action and attorney's fees
- § 31-14-19-1. Full faith and credit to paternity determination by foreign jurisdiction
- § 31-14-20-1. Duty to register
- § 31-14-20-2. Failure to register; effect on parental rights in adoption proceedings
- § 31-14-21-1. Applicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC 31-14-21-7
- § 31-14-21-2. Nonapplicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC 31-14-21-7
- § 31-14-21-3. Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice to attorney or agency in adoption proceedings
- § 31-14-21-4. Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice to clerk having jurisdiction over adoption
- § 31-14-21-5. Content of notice
- § 31-14-21-6. Failure to provide notice; intervention by adoptive parents
- § 31-14-21-7. Failure to provide notice; vacation of paternity determination; intervention by adoptive parents
- § 31-14-21-8. Intervention by adoptive parents; purposes of intervention; objections to errors in paternity proceedings
- § 31-14-21-9. Duty of court with jurisdiction to establish paternity within period prescribed by chapter
- § 31-14-21-9.1. Duty of court to order blood or genetic testing
- § 31-14-21-9.2. Final hearing to determine paternity and ruling
- § 31-14-21-10. Repealed
- § 31-14-21-11. Repealed
- § 31-14-21-12. Repealed
- § 31-14-21-13. Stay proceedings in paternity action
- § 31-15-1-1. Construction and application of article
- § 31-15-1-2. Purposes and policies of article
- § 31-15-2-1. Applicability of Indiana Rules of Civil Procedure
- § 31-15-2-2. Cause of action established
- § 31-15-2-3. Grounds for decree
- § 31-15-2-4. Caption
- § 31-15-2-5. Verified petition; averments; guardian filing petition
- § 31-15-2-6. Residence; filing in county of guardian's residence
- § 31-15-2-7. Venue; legal separation proceeding pending or order in effect; disposition
- § 31-15-2-8. Service of petition and summons
- § 31-15-2-9. Responsive pleading or counter petition
- § 31-15-2-10. Final hearing
- § 31-15-2-11. Final hearing; action for legal separation pending when action for dissolution of marriage filed
- § 31-15-2-12. Motion to dismiss by party who filed action; counter petition; hearing
- § 31-15-2-13. Summary dissolution decree
- § 31-15-2-14. Bifurcation of issues; summary disposition orders
- § 31-15-2-15. Final hearing; evidence; dissolution decree; continuance; motion for dissolution
- § 31-15-2-16. Dissolution decree; scope; finality; remarriage pending appeal
- § 31-15-2-17. Agreements
- § 31-15-2-18. Name change of woman
- § 31-15-2-19. Name change by lifetime sex or violent offender
- § 31-15-3-1. Applicability of Indiana Rules of Civil Procedure
- § 31-15-3-2. Cause of action established
- § 31-15-3-3. Findings required for decree
- § 31-15-3-4. Caption; verified petition; averments; guardian filing petition
- § 31-15-3-5. Dissolution of marriage action; provisional order or decree as bar to legal separation proceeding
- § 31-15-3-6. Residence; filing in county of guardian's residence
- § 31-15-3-7. Service of petition and summons
- § 31-15-3-8. Responsive pleading or counter petition
- § 31-15-3-9. Decree; term; findings
- § 31-15-3-10. Scope of decree
- § 31-15-3-11. Maintenance
- § 31-15-4-1. Motions
- § 31-15-4-2. Supporting affidavit
- § 31-15-4-3. Motion for temporary restraining order
- § 31-15-4-4. Hearing of motions
- § 31-15-4-5. Preliminary hearing of petition for temporary support or custody of child
- § 31-15-4-6. Determination
- § 31-15-4-7. Temporary restraining order
- § 31-15-4-8. Temporary orders
- § 31-15-4-9. Counseling
- § 31-15-4-10. Joint counseling
- § 31-15-4-11. Change of venue or change from judge; effect on jurisdiction
- § 31-15-4-12. Change of venue or change from judge; effect on provisional orders
- § 31-15-4-13. Provisional order; rights not prejudiced
- § 31-15-4-14. Provisional order; termination
- § 31-15-4-15. Provisional order; revocation or modification
- § 31-15-4-16. Repealed