Indiana Code 34-26-5-7. Address confidentiality
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Sec. 7. A petitioner may omit the petitioner’s address from all nonconfidential documents filed with a court. However, a petitioner must provide the court with complete information concerning the protected address on the uniform statewide confidential form and on other confidential forms developed by the office of judicial administration under section 3 of this chapter. A petitioner shall also provide the clerk with a public mailing address for purposes of serving pleadings, notices, and court orders. The petitioner may use the address confidentiality program under IC 5-26.5. If disclosure of a petitioner’s address is necessary to determine jurisdiction or to consider venue, the court may order the disclosure to be made:
(2) orally in the judge’s chambers and out of the presence of a respondent with a sealed record made; or
(1) after receiving a petitioner’s consent;
Terms Used In Indiana Code 34-26-5-7
- Chambers: A judge's office.
- Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
(3) after a hearing in which the court considers the safety of a petitioner and finds that disclosure of the address is in the interest of justice.
As added by P.L.133-2002, SEC.56. Amended by P.L.221-2003, SEC.10; P.L.161-2018, SEC.108.