must be entitled "In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of ___________, a child, and ____________, the child's parent (or parents)".
(c) A petition filed under subsection (a) must allege:
a court has entered a finding under IC 31-34-21-5.6 that reasonable efforts for family preservation or reunification are not required, including a description of the court's finding, the date of the finding, and the manner in which the finding was made.
whichever occurred earlier, unless the parent's failure to substantially comply with the child's dispositional decree was due to the failure of the department to make reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify the child's family under IC 31-34-21-5.5; or
committed by the biological parent of the child whose parent-child relationship with the child is the subject of the petition.
IC 31-35-2-4
Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-6-5-4(a), (c).