Shelton v. Shelton

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER FROM THE INDIANA COURT OF APPEALS, NO. 82A04-0502-CV-00089.

DICKSON, Justice.

In this case, the Court of Appeals applied the term "family member" as used in Section I(C)@) of the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines 1 to mean "a person within the same household as the parent with physical custody." Shelton v. Shelton, 885 N.E.2d 513, 517 (Ind.Ct.App.2005). This construction resulted from the court's ree-ognition that the Guidelines "impose a preference for parental childcare, founded 'on the premise that it is usually in a child's best interest to have frequent, meaningful…