Supreme Court reversed trial court’s final adoption order, because it was improper to waive various legislative safeguards designed to protect infants who are proposed for adoption, including the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
Civil
Estate of Mintz v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., No. 49S05-0805-CV-214, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Mar. 25, 2009)
Proximate cause, comparative fault allocation, and whether (and to what extent) defendant acted as a “reasonably prudent person” are questions of fact for the fact-finder to resolve.
In re Paternity of K.I., No. 13S05-0805-JV-213, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Mar. 25. 2009)
Whether a grandparent is entitled to visitation when custody is modified from that grandparent to a natural parent is determined by the grandparent visitation statute, not the de facto custodian statute.
Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co. v. Mark Dill Plumbing Co., No. 87A01-0807-CV-307, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 25, 2009)
Trial court did not err in denying mortgage owner’s request for a “strict foreclosure” where mortgage owner failed to make junior lienholders parties to the foreclosure action.
Attaway v. Omega, No. 11A01-0712-CV-608, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 13, 2009)
Trial court properly denied motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, because defendants-eBay sellers purposefully availed themselves of the privilege of conducting activities within Indiana.