Trial court lacked authority to grant post-adoption visitation rights to child’s biological uncle.
Dexter v. State, No. 79A04-1212-CR-611, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 22, 2013).
Certified transcript of guilty plea and sentencing hearing sufficed as proof of a prior unrelated conviction for habitual offender status.
Sugg v. State, No. 31A05-1208-CR-397, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 24, 2013).
Applies, as a matter of first impression in Indiana, U.S. Supreme Court’s McArthur decision that “a police officer’s refusal to allow a defendant to enter his or her residence without a police officer until a search warrant has been obtained is a reasonable seizure that does not violate the Fourth Amendment.”
Stone v. Stone, No. 49A02-1210-DR-820, __ N.E.2d __, (Ind. Ct. App., July 23, 2013).
The trial court properly refused to approve a settlement agreement entered into by parents regarding custody of minor children.
In re Guardianship of A.J.A. & L.M.A., No. 48S02-1305-GU-398, __ N.E.2d __, (Ind., July 18, 2013).
The Grandparent Visitation Statute does not provide a way that a grandparent may seek visitation when her child has murdered the mother of her two grandchildren; the order granting grandparent visitation was void.