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Section
31-9-2-0.2

Application of Certain Amendments to Prior Law

Section
31-9-2-0.3

"Abandoned"

Section
31-9-2-0.4

"Abandoned Child"

Section
31-9-2-0.5

"Abandoned Infant"

Section
31-9-2-0.7

"Account"

Section
31-9-2-0.8

"Active Duty"

Section
31-9-2-0.9

"Act of Rape"

Section
31-9-2-1

"Actual Notice"

Section
31-9-2-2

"Adoptee"

Section
31-9-2-3

"Adoption"

Section
31-9-2-4

"Adoption Assistance State"

Section
31-9-2-5

"Adoption History"

Section
31-9-2-5.5

"Adoption Subsidy"

Section
31-9-2-6

"Adoptive Parent"

Section
31-9-2-7

"Adult"

Section
31-9-2-8

"Advisory Board"

Section
31-9-2-8.5

"Age or Developmentally Appropriate"

Section
31-9-2-9

"Alleged Father"

Section
31-9-2-9.3

"Applicant"

Section
31-9-2-9.4

"Application"

Section
31-9-2-9.5

"Appropriate Public Authorities"

Section
31-9-2-9.6

"Assessment"

Section
31-9-2-9.7

"Assistance"

Section
31-9-2-9.9

"At-Risk Child" or "At-Risk Children"

Section
31-9-2-10

"Birth Parent"

Section
31-9-2-10.3

"Blind"

Section
31-9-2-10.6

"Board"

Section
31-9-2-10.8

"Bureau"

Section
31-9-2-10.9

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-11

"Caseworker"

Section
31-9-2-11.1

"Case"

Section
31-9-2-12

"Center"

Section
31-9-2-12.5

"Central Authority"

Section
31-9-2-13

"Child"

Section
31-9-2-14

"Child Abuse or Neglect"

Section
31-9-2-14.5

"Child at Imminent Risk of Placement"

Section
31-9-2-15

"Child Born in Wedlock"

Section
31-9-2-16

"Child Born Out of Wedlock"

Section
31-9-2-16.3

"Child Care"

Section
31-9-2-16.4

"Child Caregiver"

Section
31-9-2-16.5

"Child Care Provider"

Section
31-9-2-16.7

"Child Caring Institution"

Section
31-9-2-16.8

"Child Custody Determination"

Section
31-9-2-16.9

"Child Custody Proceeding"

Section
31-9-2-17

"Child in Need of Services"

Section
31-9-2-17.5

"Child Placing Agency"

Section
31-9-2-17.8

"Child Services"

Section
31-9-2-18

"Child Support Guidelines"

Section
31-9-2-19

"Child Support Order"

Section
31-9-2-19.3

"Child Welfare Agency"

Section
31-9-2-19.5

"Child Welfare Services"

Section
31-9-2-19.6

"Child Welfare Program"

Section
31-9-2-20

"Child With a Disability"

Section
31-9-2-20.3

"Child With Special Needs"

Section
31-9-2-20.5

"Commencement"

Section
31-9-2-21

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-22

"Compact"

Section
31-9-2-22.1

"Concurrent Planning"

Section
31-9-2-22.5

"Conduct a Criminal History Check"

Section
31-9-2-23

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-23.7

"Contact"

Section
31-9-2-23.8

"Contact Preference Form"

Section
31-9-2-24

"Controlled Substance"

Section
31-9-2-24.2

"Convention"

Section
31-9-2-24.3

"Convention Support Order"

Section
31-9-2-24.5

"Costs of Secure Detention"

Section
31-9-2-25

"Council"

Section
31-9-2-26

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-27

"Court"

Section
31-9-2-28

"Court Appointed Special Advocate"

Section
31-9-2-29

"Crime"

Section
31-9-2-29.5

"Crime Involving Domestic or Family Violence"

Section
31-9-2-29.7

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-30

"Custodial Parent"

Section
31-9-2-31

"Custodian"

Section
31-9-2-32

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-33

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-34

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-35

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-35.5

"De Facto Custodian"

Section
31-9-2-36

"Delinquent"

Section
31-9-2-37

"Delinquent Child"

Section
31-9-2-38

"Delinquent Juvenile"

Section
31-9-2-38.5

"Department"

Section
31-9-2-39

"Dependent Child" or "Neglected Child"

Section
31-9-2-39.5

"Destitute Child"

Section
31-9-2-40

"Director"

Section
31-9-2-40.5

"Direct Request"

Section
31-9-2-41

"Dissolution Decree"

Section
31-9-2-41.2

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-42

"Domestic or Family Violence"

Section
31-9-2-42.3

"Drug or Alcohol Screen Test"

Section
31-9-2-43

"Duty of Support"

Section
31-9-2-43.2

"Early Intervention Advocate"

Section
31-9-2-43.3

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-43.5

"Emergency Medical Services Provider"

Section
31-9-2-43.8

"Evaluator"

Section
31-9-2-44

"Executive Authority"

Section
31-9-2-44.1

"Exigent Circumstances"

Section
31-9-2-44.3

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-44.5

"Family or Household Member"

Section
31-9-2-44.8

"Family Preservation Services"

Section
31-9-2-45

"Family Services"

Section
31-9-2-45.9

"Final Agency Action"

Section
31-9-2-46

"Final Separation"

Section
31-9-2-46.1

"Foreign Central Authority"

Section
31-9-2-46.2

"Foreign Country"

Section
31-9-2-46.3

"Foreign Support Agreement"

Section
31-9-2-46.4

"Foreign Support Order"

Section
31-9-2-46.5

"Financial Institution"

Section
31-9-2-46.6

"Foreign Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-46.7

"Foster Care"

Section
31-9-2-46.9

"Foster Family Home"

Section
31-9-2-47

"Foster Parent"

Section
31-9-2-47.6

"Fund"

Section
31-9-2-48

"Governor"

Section
31-9-2-48.3

"Grandparent Visitation"

Section
31-9-2-48.5

"Group Home"

Section
31-9-2-49

"Guardian"

Section
31-9-2-50

"Guardian Ad Litem"

Section
31-9-2-51

"Hard to Place Child" or "Hard to Place Children"

Section
31-9-2-52

"Health Care Provider"

Section
31-9-2-53

"Home State"

Section
31-9-2-54

"Identifying Information"

Section
31-9-2-54.5

"Incapacitated Person"

Section
31-9-2-54.7

"Incarceration"

Section
31-9-2-55

"Includes"

Section
31-9-2-56

"Income"

Section
31-9-2-57

"Income Payor"

Section
31-9-2-58

"Income Withholding Order"

Section
31-9-2-58.3

"Index"

Section
31-9-2-58.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-59

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-59.5

"Initial Determination"

Section
31-9-2-60

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-61

"Initiating Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-62

"Intake Officer"

Section
31-9-2-63

"Intended Biological Parent"

Section
31-9-2-64

"Interested Person"

Section
31-9-2-64.5

"Issuing Court"

Section
31-9-2-64.7

"Issuing Foreign Country"

Section
31-9-2-65

"Issuing State"

Section
31-9-2-66

"Issuing Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-67

"Joint Legal Custody"

Section
31-9-2-68

"Judge"

Section
31-9-2-69

"Juvenile"

Section
31-9-2-70

"Juvenile Court"

Section
31-9-2-71

"Juvenile Detention Facility"

Section
31-9-2-72

"Juvenile Law"

Section
31-9-2-72.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-72.6

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-72.7

"Kinship Care Navigator Program"

Section
31-9-2-73

"Law"

Section
31-9-2-74

"Law Enforcement Agency"

Section
31-9-2-75

"Legal Settlement"

Section
31-9-2-76

"Legend Drug"

Section
31-9-2-76.3

"Licensee"

Section
31-9-2-76.4

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-76.5

"Long Term Foster Parent"

Section
31-9-2-76.6

"Local Office"

Section
31-9-2-76.7

"Lifetime Sex or Violent Offender"

Section
31-9-2-76.8

"Local Law Enforcement Authority"

Section
31-9-2-77

"Maternal or Paternal Grandparent"

Section
31-9-2-78

"Medical History"

Section
31-9-2-79

"Medical Information"

Section
31-9-2-80

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-80.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-80.8

"Modification"

Section
31-9-2-81

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-81.5

"Monitor"

Section
31-9-2-82

"Neglected Child" or "Dependent Child"

Section
31-9-2-83

"Noncustodial Parent"

Section
31-9-2-84

"Nonidentifying Information"

Section
31-9-2-84.6

"Nonrelocating Individual"

Section
31-9-2-84.7

"Nonrelocating Parent"

Section
31-9-2-84.8

"Nonwaivable Offense"

Section
31-9-2-85

"Obligee"

Section
31-9-2-86

"Obligor"

Section
31-9-2-86.5

"Office of Administrative Law Proceedings"

Section
31-9-2-87

"Omission"

Section
31-9-2-87.5

"Outside This State"

Section
31-9-2-88

"Parent"

Section
31-9-2-88.5

"Parenting Time"

Section
31-9-2-88.7

"Permanency Roundtable"

Section
31-9-2-89

"Person"

Section
31-9-2-90

"Person Acting as Parent"

Section
31-9-2-91

"Petitioner"

Section
31-9-2-92

"Physical Custody"

Section
31-9-2-92.5

"Plan"

Section
31-9-2-93

"Pre-Adoptive Sibling"

Section
31-9-2-94

"Preliminary Inquiry"

Section
31-9-2-95

"Premarital Agreement"

Section
31-9-2-95.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-96

"Prior Family Law and Juvenile Law"

Section
31-9-2-97

"Probation or Parole"

Section
31-9-2-97.4

"Professional Health Care Provider"

Section
31-9-2-97.6

"Project"

Section
31-9-2-98

"Property"

Section
31-9-2-99

"Prosecuting Attorney"

Section
31-9-2-99.2

"Prospective Adoptive Parent"

Section
31-9-2-99.3

"Provider"

Section
31-9-2-99.7

"Public Welfare"

Section
31-9-2-100

"Putative Father"

Section
31-9-2-100.5

"Qualified Medical Practitioner"

Section
31-9-2-101

"Reason to Believe"

Section
31-9-2-101.5

"Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard"

Section
31-9-2-102

"Receiving State"

Section
31-9-2-102.5

"Recipient"

Section
31-9-2-102.7

"Record"

Section
31-9-2-103

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-103.6

"Region"

Section
31-9-2-103.7

"Regional Services Council"

Section
31-9-2-104

"Register"

Section
31-9-2-105

"Registering Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-106

"Registry"

Section
31-9-2-106.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-107

"Relative"

Section
31-9-2-107.5

"Relocating Individual"

Section
31-9-2-107.7

"Relocation"

Section
31-9-2-108

"Residence"

Section
31-9-2-109

"Residence State"

Section
31-9-2-109.5

"Residential Placement Committee"

Section
31-9-2-110

"Respondent"

Section
31-9-2-111

"Responding State"

Section
31-9-2-112

"Responding Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-113

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-113.5

"School"

Section
31-9-2-113.7

"Secure Detention Facility"

Section
31-9-2-114

"Secure Facility"

Section
31-9-2-115

"Secure Private Facility"

Section
31-9-2-116

"Sending State"

Section
31-9-2-116.4

"Services"

Section
31-9-2-116.5

"Services or Items"

Section
31-9-2-117

"Shelter Care Facility"

Section
31-9-2-117.3

"Sibling"

Section
31-9-2-117.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-118

"Spousal Support Order"

Section
31-9-2-119

"State"

Section
31-9-2-120

"State Department"

Section
31-9-2-121

"State Registrar"

Section
31-9-2-121.5

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-122

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-122.5

"Steve System"

Section
31-9-2-123

"Substantiated"

Section
31-9-2-123.5

"Successful Adulthood Services"

Section
31-9-2-123.7

"Supervised Independent Living Arrangement"

Section
31-9-2-124

"Support Enforcement Agency"

Section
31-9-2-125

"Support Order"

Section
31-9-2-126

"Surrogate"

Section
31-9-2-127

"Surrogate Agreement"

Section
31-9-2-128

Repealed

Section
31-9-2-129

"Team"

Section
31-9-2-129.5

"Therapeutic Foster Family Home"

Section
31-9-2-130

"Title Iv-D Agency"

Section
31-9-2-130.2

"Title Iv-D Case"

Section
31-9-2-130.3

"Transitional Services Plan"

Section
31-9-2-130.5

"Tribe"

Section
31-9-2-131

"Tribunal"

Section
31-9-2-131.3

"Ultimate Authority of the Department"

Section
31-9-2-131.5

"United States Central Authority"

Section
31-9-2-132

"Unsubstantiated"

Section
31-9-2-133

"Victim of Child Abuse or Neglect"

Section
31-9-2-133.1

"Victim of Human or Sexual Trafficking"

Section
31-9-2-134

"Voluntary Information"

Section
31-9-2-134.5

"Wardship"

Section
31-9-2-135

"Warrant"

Section
31-9-2-136

"Youth Service Bureau"