2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 16. Health
ARTICLE 18. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 2. Definitions
16-18-2-266.4. "Parent or legal guardian or custodian"
Sec. 266.4. (a) "Parent or legal guardian or custodian" means the following, except as provided in subsection (b):
(1) A parent having legal custody of a child.
(2) The biological father of a child who is married to the mother of the child:
(A) if the mother of the child has legal custody of the child; and
(B) even if the father does not have legal custody of the child.
(3) The legal guardian of a child.
(4) The legal custodian of a child.
(b) The term does not include:
(1) the department of correction, if wardship of the child is transferred to the department for housing in a correctional facility for children;
(2) a community based correctional facility for children, if wardship of the child is transferred to the correctional facility for children; or
(3) a secure juvenile facility, if wardship is transferred to the secure juvenile facility.
If an entity described in this subsection has wardship, the person described in subsection (a) who had legal custody of the child (or, in the case of a father described in subsection (a)(2), was married to a mother with legal custody) at the time wardship was transferred is the parent, legal guardian, or custodian of the child unless a court has terminated that person's legal custody or guardianship rights.
As added by P.L.173-2017, SEC.1.
