Legally Brief

Nearly 14,000 Hoosiers have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The deaths take a toll on the emotions of their families, but also on their finances. Funerals are expensive, totaling [...]

The CDC’s Eviction Ban Is No Longer in Place.  Background: The Alabama Association of Realtors, along with other plaintiffs, challenged the validity of the Centers for Disease Control and [...]

By ICADV Chief Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett Indiana’s Emancipation Age In Indiana, the emancipation age is 19 years old. A child is emancipated by law when the child reaches 19 years of age. [...]

By ICADV Chief Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett I’m sharing a snip of a recent article by Julie Whitman, Executive Director of the Commission on Improving the Status of Children in Indiana. My [...]

Starting July 1, 2020 the Indiana Attorney General’s Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) allows victims of harassment, human trafficking, intimidation, or invasion of privacy to participate in [...]

by ICADV Legal Counsel Kerry Hyatt Bennett  This was a great week (and a proud week) to be a lawyer, in my opinion.  Two landmark and pivotal decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States [...]

On April 23, 2020, the EEOC issued new guidance clarifying that employers may conduct mandatory testing of employees for COVID-19 before they enter the workplace so long as the testing is [...]

Background: What is Title IX? Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from [...]

Although not specifically announced in the Governor’s recent address, it is important for programs and survivors to know that Indiana’s moratorium on evictions has been extended to June 4, 2020. [...]