As used in this article 17, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1)Arrears or arrearages shall have the same meaning as provided in
section 26-13.5-102 (2).
(2)Child support means any amount required to be paid pursuant to a
judicial or administrative child support order.
(3)Child support debt shall have the same meaning as provided in section
26-13.5-102 (3).
(4)Child support enforcement service means a service, including related
financial accounting services, performed directly or indirectly for the purpose of
causing a payment required, or allegedly required, by a child support order to be
made to the obligee to whom the payment is owed or to an agent of that individual.
(5)Child support order means any judgment, decree, order, or
administrative order of support in
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As used in this article 17, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Arrears or arrearages shall have the same meaning as provided in
section 26-13.5-102 (2).
(2) Child support means any amount required to be paid pursuant to a
judicial or administrative child support order.
(3) Child support debt shall have the same meaning as provided in section
26-13.5-102 (3).
(4) Child support enforcement service means a service, including related
financial accounting services, performed directly or indirectly for the purpose of
causing a payment required, or allegedly required, by a child support order to be
made to the obligee to whom the payment is owed or to an agent of that individual.
(5) Child support order means any judgment, decree, order, or
administrative order of support in favor of an obligee, whether temporary,
permanent, final, or subject to modification, revocation, or remission, regardless of
the kind of action or proceeding in which it is entered, requiring the payment of
current child support, child support arrears, child support debt, retroactive support,
or medical support, whether or not the order is combined with an order for
maintenance.
(6) Current child support means the ongoing periodic support obligation
that an obligor is required to pay pursuant to a child support order.
(7) Obligee means an individual who is owed child support under a child
support order and who has entered or may enter into a contract with a collector.
(8) Obligor means any person owing or alleged to owe a duty of child
support or against whom a proceeding for the establishment or enforcement of a
duty to pay child support is commenced.
(9) (a) Private child support collector or collector, except as provided in
subsection (9)(b) of this section, means a person or entity who performs, or offers to
perform, a child support enforcement service for an obligee under one or more of
the following conditions:
(I) The obligee lives in Colorado at the time the contract is signed;
(II) The collector has a place of business or is licensed to conduct business in
Colorado; or
(III) The collector contacts more than twenty-five obligors per year who live
in Colorado.
(b) The term private child support collector does not include:
(I) A person or entity described in section 5-16-103 (3)(b);
(II) A nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under section
501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and charges no more than
a nominal fee for providing assistance to any obligee with regard to the collection
of child support;
(III) An attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Colorado;
(IV) An entity operating as an independent contractor with a county
government agency that contracts to provide services that a delegate child support
enforcement unit is required by law to provide; or
(V) A delegate child support enforcement unit acting pursuant to article 13.5
of title 26.
(10) Private child support enforcement service contract or contract
means a contract or agreement, as described in section 5-17-106, pursuant to which
a collector agrees to perform a child support enforcement service for an obligee for
a fee.
(11) State agency means a government agency or its contractual agent
administering a state plan approved under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security
Act, as amended.