Indiana § 32-20-5-2 - Filing claim to slander title; claimant's liability for costs and damages

§ 32-20-5-2. Filing claim to slander title; claimant's liability for costs and damages

Sec. 2. In any action to quiet title to land, if the court finds that a person has filed a claim only to slander title to land, the court shall:

(1) award the plaintiff all the costs of the action, including attorney's fees that the court allows to the plaintiff; and

(2) decree that the defendant asserting the claim shall pay to the plaintiff all damages that the plaintiff may have sustained as the result of the notice of claims having been filed for record.

[Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-1-5-9 part.]

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.5.

IC 32-21ARTICLE 21. CONVEYANCE PROCEDURES FOR REAL PROPERTY

Ch. 1.Statute of Frauds; Writing Requirements Ch. 2.Recording Process Ch. 2.5.Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act Ch. 3.Effect of Recording Ch. 4.Priority of Recorded Transactions Ch. 5.Residential Real Estate Sales Disclosure Ch. 5.2.Prohibition Against Mandated Inspection of a Class 2 Structure or Residential Onsite Sewage System Ch. 6.Psychologically Affected Properties Ch. 7.Adverse Possession Ch. 8.Tax Sale Surplus Disclosure Ch. 9.Written Instruments by Members of the Armed Forces Ch. 10.Conveyances in Which the Grantor and Another Are Named as Grantees Ch. 11.Repealed Ch. 12.Deed Restrictions Regarding Industrialized Residential Structures Ch. 13.Display of Political Signs on Property Subject to Restrictive Covenants or Homeowners Association Rules Ch. 13.5.Display of the Flag of the United States or the Indiana State Flag on Property Subject to Regulation by a Property Owners Association Ch. 14.Transfer Fee Covenants Ch. 15.Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants Ch. 16.5.Solicitation of Real Estate Sale or Purchase by an Unlicensed Real Estate Solicitor

IC 32-21-1Chapter 1. Statute of Frauds; Writing Requirements

32-21-1-1Requirement of written agreement; agreements or promises covered 32-21-1-2Consideration for agreement; writing not required 32-21-1-3Conveyance; trust in lands; goods; things in action 32-21-1-4Trust arising from or extinguished by implication of law 32-21-1-5Compelling specific performance in cases of part performance 32-21-1-6Representations concerning other persons 32-21-1-7Conveyance revocable at will of grantor; provision void as to subsequent purchaser 32-21-1-8Revocation and reconveyance power; person other than grantor 32-21-1-9Conveyance before vesting of power of revocation 32-21-1-10Commission for finding purchaser of real estate 32-21-1-11Repealed 32-21-1-12Repealed 32-21-1-13Conveyance of land; written deed required 32-21-1-14Conveyances by attorney; power of attorney 32-21-1-15Conveyances by quitclaim 32-21-1-16Estate of inheritance; expression of intent required to create lesser estate 32-21-1-17Incorporating by reference recorded encumberances