“[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.”
Appeals
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.
Rickman v. Rickman, No. 27A02-1211-DR-950, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 10, 2013).
Imprisonment for child molestation and criminal confinement is insufficient, by itself, to deny an incarcerated father phone or mail contact with his child.
Luttrell v. Luttrell, No. 49A02-1301-DR-85, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2013).
The trial court properly excluded a lump sum Social Security Disability Insurance payment from division as part of the marital estate.
Turner v. State, No. 49A05-1302-CR-59, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 3, 2013).
Discusses argument that statements of State’s confidential informant were not hearsay under the party-opponent hearsay exception.