Local Rule - State of Indiana

6000 SERIESPORTER COUNTYLOCAL FAMILY COURT RULESLR64-FC00-6000CITATIONThese rules shall be known as Porter County Family Court Rules and shall be cited as follows:“PORTER COUNTY LOCAL FAMILY COURT RULE “(OR “LR64-FC - “);LR64-FC00-6100OBJECTIVEThe primary objective of the Porter County Family Court is to coordinate cases amongfamily members throughout the judicial process and to ensure the delivery of appropriate services.This allows judges to review family issues in a comprehensive manner, consolidate hearings whenappropriate, issue non conflicting orders, impose sanctions to best fit family needs and instillaccountability. To implement this concept, new techniques and information management systemsare needed to identify family members and link their cases as they enter the judicial system.These rules are implemented only for cases assigned to Family Court.LR64-FC00-6200DEFINITIONSFamily Court. “Family Court” is the court or courts before which cases involving a familyor household are linked together for purposes of case coordination. The individual cases maintaintheir separate integrity and separate docket number, but may be given a common Family Courtdesignation. The individual cases may all be transferred to one judge, or may remain in theseparate courts in which they were originally filed.Family Court Proceeding. A “Family Court Proceeding” is comprised of the individualcases of the family or household which have been assigned to Family Court.LR64-FC00-6300JURISDICTION AND RELATED CASESPorter County Family Court will have jurisdiction over cases in which a family withchildren or household with children has involvement in multiple cases, as indicated by the FamilyCourt matrix, of the following types: CHINS, delinquency, juvenile status offense, child support,termination of parental rights, adoption, placement of children, paternity, dissolution of marriage,mental health, domestic violence, protective order, adult criminal (intra-family) and alcohol ordrug charges.65