Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 31-17-2-20 (2025)
Confidentiality of interview, report, or investigation
✓ 2025 Indiana Code: the 2026 session is not included
Sec. 20. If the court finds it necessary to protect the child's welfare that the record of any interview, a report, or an investigation in a custody proceeding not be a public record, the court may make an appropriate order accordingly.
[Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-1-11.5-23(d).]
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.9.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1998–2024 · leading case: Marriage of Tamasy v. Kovacs, 929 N.E.2d 820 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010).
Marriage of Tamasy v. Kovacs, 929 N.E.2d 820 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010). “Under Indiana Code section 31-17-2-20 (2007), a court may not modify a child custody order unless modification is in the child's best interests and there has been a substantial change in one of several factors that a court may consider in initially determining custody as…”
Deasy-Leas v. Leas, 693 N.E.2d 90 (Ind. Ct. App. 1998). “CODE § 31-17-2-20 (1997 Supp.). The general confidentiality provision allows a court to make a determination, despite the statute requiring revelation of such reports, that the particular circumstances require confidentiality as to a “public record.”
Paternity: Genesis Palma v. Zachary Kent Keown, No. 23A-JP-02316 (Ind. Ct. App. Aug. 14, 2024). “” I.C. § 31-17-2-20. Further, proceedings under Indiana Code Chapter 31-17-2 for child custody and modification of child custody must “comply with the Indiana Rules of Civil Procedure.”
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