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

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

(1) prenatal care;

(2) delivery;

(3) hospitalization;

(4) other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the child’s birth;

(5) postpartum expenses; and

(6) 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; P.L.119-2023, SEC.1.