Indianapolis – Newly formatted versions of parenting time and child support guidelines have made the Supreme Court’s most popular online rules more user-friendly.

Child support and parenting time guidelines are commonly the most-viewed rules on the Indiana Supreme Court’s website, http://courts.IN.gov.

The parenting time guidelines provide valuable information on how both custodial and non-custodial parents can successfully provide their children with the support they need.

While the information provided in the online version of the guidelines is important, many users had found it unwieldy to print out for regular reference.

“We received feedback from the public, court and clerks’ offices that the parenting time guidelines were difficult to make copies of because they were so long. We want this information to be as easily accessible as possible so we reformatted the file to make it easier to print,” said Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard.

No information was removed from the documents, but the number of pages was reduced from 27 to 15 for the parenting time guidelines and from 37 to 25 pages for the child support guidelines.

The Division of State Court Administration will also be providing hard copies of the parenting time guidelines to local courts and clerks that request them. They will be available later this summer.

View the guidelines online at http://www.in.gov/judiciary/rules/parenting/parenting.pdf and http://www.in.gov/judiciary/rules/child_support/child_support.pdf.