Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 31-14-20-2 (2025)
Failure to register; effect on parental rights in adoption proceedings
✓ 2025 Indiana Code: the 2026 session is not included
Sec. 2. (a) A man who fails to register with the putative father registry as required by section 1 of this chapter waives the right to notice of an adoption of a child who is the subject of the paternity action:
(1) if the adoption is filed before the man establishes paternity; and
(2) in which the child's mother does not disclose to an attorney or agency arranging the adoption the name or address of the child's putative father.
(b) A waiver under this section constitutes the man's irrevocably implied consent to the child's adoption.
[Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-6-6.1-2(e).]
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6.
IC 31-14-21Chapter 21. Requirements When Adoption Pending for Child Who
Is Subject of Paternity Action
31-14-21-1Applicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC
31-14-21-7
31-14-21-2Nonapplicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC
31-14-21-7
31-14-21-3Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice
to attorney or agency in adoption proceedings
31-14-21-4Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice
to clerk having jurisdiction over adoption
31-14-21-5Content of notice
31-14-21-6Failure to provide notice; intervention by
adoptive parents
31-14-21-7Failure to provide notice; vacation of paternity
determination; intervention by adoptive parents
31-14-21-8Intervention by adoptive parents; purposes of
intervention; objections to errors in paternity
proceedings
31-14-21-9Duty of court with jurisdiction to establish
paternity within period prescribed by chapter
31-14-21-9.1Duty of court to order blood or genetic testing
31-14-21-9.2Final hearing to determine paternity and ruling
31-14-21-10Repealed
31-14-21-11Repealed
31-14-21-12Repealed
31-14-21-13Stay proceedings in paternity action
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1999–2025 · leading case: Walker v. Campbell, 711 N.E.2d 42 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999).
Walker v. Campbell, 711 N.E.2d 42 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999). “CODE § 31-14-20-2 goes beyond the putative father registry's primary purpose of prescribing the procedures of providing notice by pronouncing that a putative father's failure to register will work the forfeiture of his parental rights in adoption proceedings as follows: (a) A…”
In Re Paternity of Baby Doe, 734 N.E.2d 281 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000). “[4] However, if a putative father does not register within the required 30 days, the putative father is not entitled to notice of the adoption.”
Mathews v. Hansen, 797 N.E.2d 1168 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003). “Today we are called upon to construe the provisions of Indiana Code sections 31-14-20-2 and 81-19-4-6 regarding a man's duty to register as a putative father.”
In the Matter of Adoption Petition of Romero, 2006-NMCA-136, 145 P.3d 98. “2000) (quoting Ind.Code § 31-14-20-2 (1997)). Our statutes have no comparable provisions.”
Helen G. v. Mark Jh, 145 P.3d 98 (N.M. Ct. App. 2006). “2000) (quoting Ind.Code § 31-14-20-2 (1997)). Our statutes have no comparable provisions.”
Jones v. Maple, 734 N.E.2d 281 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000). “” Ind.Code § 31-14-20-2. 6 Further, a putative father whose consent to adoption is implied is not entitled to either challenge the validity of his implied consent or establish paternity.”
M S v. J a, No. 24A-AD-02302 (Ind. Ct. App. Apr. 17, 2025). “Indiana Code section 31-14-20-2 indicates a man who fails to register with the Registry as required by section 1 waives his right to notice of an adoption petition regarding the child at issue in the paternity action if the adoption is filed before the establishment of paternity…”
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