Jim Bleeke and Richard Moore will be attending the Medical Liability Conference of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) on March 21-22 in Miami, Florida. The attorneys of Bleeke Dillon Crandall work closely with DRI in arranging top-notch speakers and timely topics for this seminar and the DRI Nursing Home Seminar each year in September. The 2013 Medical Liability Conference will feature presentations by representatives of Western Litigation (one of BDC's clients) regarding tips for handling high stakes litigation. In addition, several interesting medical topics will be addressed by nationally recognized speakers.
DRI's Medical Liability Conference also provides an opportunity for networking and developing friendships with attorneys and potential clients throughout the country. BDC's attorneys have developed strong friendships with lawyers around the country who can help serve our clients when they have needs in other states. In addition, those friendships make life as an attorney much more fulfilling, and give us an opportunity to socialize when we travel around the country.
(DRI provides strong incentives for client representatives to attend conferences, including free admission to the conferences when sponsored by an active DRI member. If you are interested in attending any of these conferences as a sponsor client representative of BDC, do not hesitate to contact any of our attorneys.)
Monday, March 11, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Modifications to Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines
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.
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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