Ind. Code § 31-17-2-8.3

Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 31-17-2-8.3 - Supervised parenting time; conviction of crime involving domestic or family violence; batterer's intervention program
(a) This section applies if a court finds that a noncustodial parent has been convicted of a crime involving domestic or family violence that was witnessed or heard by the noncustodial parent's child.
(b) There is created a rebuttable presumption that the court shall order that the noncustodial parent's parenting time with the child must be supervised:
(1) for at least one (1) year and not more than two (2) years immediately following the crime involving domestic or family violence; or
(2) until the child becomes emancipated;

whichever occurs first.

(c) As a condition of granting the noncustodial parent unsupervised parenting time, the court may require the noncustodial parent to complete a batterer's intervention program certified by the Indiana coalition against domestic violence.

IC 31-17-2-8.3

Amended by P.L. 162-2011, SEC. 12, eff. 7/1/2011.
As added by P.L. 133-2002, SEC.33. Amended by P.L. 68-2005, SEC.32.