IC 34-41-4
    Chapter 4. Presumption of Validity of Record After Destructionof Deed

IC 34-41-4-1
Application of chapter
    Sec. 1. This chapter applies when the record or any part of therecord of any action, proceeding, order, judgment, or decree of anycourt in Indiana:
        (1) in which title to real estate has been determined; or
        (2) upon the authority of which any administrator's, executor's,guardian's, commissioner's, trustee's, receiver's or other deed ofconveyance has been executed;
has been destroyed.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.

IC 34-41-4-2
Presumption of validity
    Sec. 2. When a record or part of a record described in section 1 ofthis chapter is destroyed, it shall be presumed that:
        (1) the court proceedings by which the title to the real estatewas established or the deed was executed and the record ofwhich has been destroyed were in all things regular and legal;and
        (2) the court making the record and rendering the judgment ordecree had jurisdiction of:
            (A) the subject matter; and
            (B) all the persons whose title the judgment, decree, or deedof conveyance assumes to determine or convey.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.

IC 34-41-4-3
Burden of proof
    Sec. 3. In an action attacking the validity of:
        (1) the title of or conveyance of real estate; or
        (2) any such record, judgment, or decree;
the record of which has been destroyed, the burden of proof is uponthe person attacking the validity.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.

IC 34-41-4-4
Limitation of actions attacking validity
    Sec. 4. An action attacking the validity of:
        (1) an order, decree, or judgment described in section 1 of thischapter; or
        (2) the title established by or resulting from an order, decree, orjudgment described in section 1 of this chapter;
must be brought not later than one (1) year after the date of thedestruction of the record.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.