2019 Indiana Code
Title 32. Property
Article 20. Marketable Title for Real Property
Chapter 5. Slander of Title
32-20-5-2. Filing claim to slander title; claimant's liability for costs and damages

Universal Citation: IN Code § 32-20-5-2 (2019)
IC 32-20-5-2 Filing claim to slander title; claimant's liability for costs and damages

Sec. 2. In any action to quiet title to land, if the court finds that a person has filed a claim only to slander title to land, the court shall:

(1) award the plaintiff all the costs of the action, including attorney's fees that the court allows to the plaintiff; and

(2) decree that the defendant asserting the claim shall pay to the plaintiff all damages that the plaintiff may have sustained as the result of the notice of claims having been filed for record.

[Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-1-5-9 part.]

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.5.

IC 32-21 ARTICLE 21. CONVEYANCE PROCEDURES FOR REAL PROPERTY

           Ch. 1.Statute of Frauds; Writing Requirements           Ch. 2.Recording Process           Ch. 2.5.Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act           Ch. 3.Effect of Recording           Ch. 4.Priority of Recorded Transactions           Ch. 5.Residential Real Estate Sales Disclosure           Ch. 6.Psychologically Affected Properties           Ch. 7.Adverse Possession           Ch. 8.Tax Sale Surplus Disclosure           Ch. 9.Written Instruments by Members of the Armed Forces           Ch. 10.Conveyances in Which the Grantor and Another Are Named as Grantees           Ch. 11.Repealed           Ch. 12.Deed Restrictions Regarding Industrialized Residential Structures           Ch. 13.Display of Political Signs on Property Subject to Restrictive Covenants or Homeowners Association Rules           Ch. 14.Transfer Fee Covenants

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