The Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines (IPTG) have been modified by the Indiana Supreme Court and are effective March 1, 2013. These changes apply only to parenting time orders issued after March 1, 2013 and do not apply retroactively.
1. Year-long calendars and holidays: Parents will be encouraged to develop a year-long calendar and, while holiday parenting time will supercede regularly scheduled parenting time, parents will no longer be required to switch weekends because of the holiday parenting time. What that means is that there will be situations where a parent may have the child or children for three weekends in a row.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day will no longer be considered holidays but will be a a part of the regular Christmas holiday. If a child's school observes these holidays then Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend and President's Day weekend are added as holidays (Friday at 6:00 p.m. to Monday at 7:00 p.m.) and Fall Break is also added as a holiday (if observed by the school) from two hours after school until 7:00 p.m. the night before school starts.
2. Communication: The amended IPTG includes email addresses to be added to contact information for each party and emphasis is added to punctual parenting time exchanges with the non-delaying parent to make up parenting time for the delay.
3. Parallel Parenting: There is a new section entitled "Parallel Parenting" which are appropriate only in high conflict cases. Based on the need to minimize communication between parents, there are several provisions addressing this approach as well as a model Parallel Parenting order in the appendix. Parallel Parenting orders are also reviewed by the Court every 180 days to determine if such orders are still appropriate.
4. Additional parenting time: The "right of first refusal" now defines a "responsible household family memeber" as an "adult person residing in the household who is related to the child by blood, marriage or adoption.
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