“Whether home detention is imposed via a direct placement in a community corrections program or as a condition of probation, its accompanying statutory requirement that the detainee receive credit time militates toward counting it as part of the executed portion of his sentence.”
Clark v. State, No. 20S05-1301-CR-10, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Sept. 17, 2013).
Defendant’s conviction is reversed because the police search at a rental storage unit that led to his arrest violated his Fourth Amendment protections.
In re N.C.G., No. 02A04-1301-JP-21, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 19, 2013).
“[S]o long as a father pays child support, exercises parenting time, and actively participates in the child’s life, then the best interests of the child may be served by giving the child the father’s surname to reinforce the bond between father and his nonmarital child, particularly if father is the noncustodial parent.”
Lunsford v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas, No. 30A01-1302-MF-63, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 20, 2013).
The bank had the senior claim on a property even though a land contract between the owner and buyer had been executed years earlier because the contract wasn’t recorded until after the mortgage was recorded.
Schwartz v. Heeter, No. 02S03-1301-DR-18, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Sept. 26, 2013).
A child support agreement incorporates the version of the Child Support Guidelines in effect for each particular year’s income.