Supervised parenting time; conviction of crime involving domestic or family violence; batterer's intervention program

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies if a court finds that a noncustodial parent has been convicted of a crime involving domestic or family violence that was witnessed or heard by the noncustodial parent's child. (b) There is created a rebuttable presumption that the court shall order that the noncustodial parent's parenting time with the child must be supervised: (1) for at least one (1) year and not more than two (2) years immediately following the crime involving domestic or family violence; or (2) until the child becomes emancipated; whichever occurs first. (c) As a condition of granting the noncustodial parent unsupervised parenting time, the court may require the noncustodial parent to complete a batterer's intervention program certified by the Indiana coalition against domestic violence. As added by P.L.188-1999, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.243-1999, SEC.1; P.L.133-2002, SEC.25; P.L.68-2005, SEC.23; P.L.162-2011, SEC.11.