Indiana Divorce Handbook - Indiana Divorce Law

The family law attorneys at Bingham McHale have put together an outstanding resource. They have published, as a downloadable PDF, a 31 page handbook titled "Divorce In Indiana."  It is admirable that they offer this handbook not just to their clients, but also free to whomever wishes to download it.  The purpose of the handbook is to assist in understanding the divorce process in Indiana.  The handbook is concise, well-written and deserves consideration as a resource to review if you are going through a divorce in Indiana.

   

Holiday Parenting Time in Indiana - Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays - Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines 2011-2012

Each year I update this post to make it relevant for the upcoming Thanksgiving and winter break parenting time. Holiday parenting time is often a source of confusion. The time a parent has the child alternates each year and is affected by when the school break starts and ends. This posting will provide the specific language of the Guidelines and also an interpretation of what the Guidelines provide this year if your child's winter break is from Thursday, December 15, 2011 and the first day back will be Tuesday, January 3, 2012. These times are consistent with the Carmel Clay School Corporation academic calendar. For links to your school system calendar see my "Indiana Schools" page in this blog which offers information about all Indiana school corporations.  Please note that the holiday parenting time is controlled by when a child gets out of school, therefore, may not follow this interpretation. To discuss this further please contact me.

 Here is what the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines say about the winter holidays:

New Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines 2012 - Equal Parenting Time and Parenting Coordination Provisions

This post is an update of previous posts (here and here and here) which have followed the Domestic Relations Committee as it reviews and revises the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines.  Since the last post the Domestic Relations Committee has published summaries of their meetings occurring in February, March, May and July of 2011.  If this topic is of interest to you, I encourage you to read the minutes yourself. There are two items in these minutes that seem important to address in this post.