Note: This version of section effective until 1-1-2024. See also following version of this section, effective 1-1-2024.

     Sec. 1. The court shall order the father to pay at least fifty percent (50%) of the reasonable and necessary expenses of the mother’s pregnancy and childbirth, including the cost of:

(1) prenatal care;

(2) delivery;

(3) hospitalization; and

(4) postnatal care.

[Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-6-6.1-17.]

As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.138-2001, SEC.10.