Jennifer M. O'Connell v. Donna S. Clay

Summary

The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed the lower court, holding that the appellate court had jurisdiction because the trial court’s post‑hearing order was a final judgment, and that the paternal grandmother had standing under the Grandparent Visitation Act because the mother’s stipulations regarding the father’s paternity created a legal equivalent of a paternity determination, invoking the doctrine of paternity by estoppel. The Court also noted that the mother’s standing challenge was procedurally improper.