In this chapter:
1.“Child” means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is
alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual’s parent or who is or is alleged to be
the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
2.“Child support order” means a support order for a child, including a child who has
attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country.
3.“Convention” means the convention on the international recovery of child support and
other forms of family maintenance, concluded at the Hague on November 23, 2007.
3 UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT, §252K.102
4.“Duty of support” means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support
for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied o
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In this chapter:
1. “Child” means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is
alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual’s parent or who is or is alleged to be
the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
2. “Child support order” means a support order for a child, including a child who has
attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country.
3. “Convention” means the convention on the international recovery of child support and
other forms of family maintenance, concluded at the Hague on November 23, 2007.
3 UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT, §252K.102
4. “Duty of support” means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support
for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support.
5. “Foreign country” means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than
the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and which meets any of the
following conditions:
a. Has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating
country.
b. Has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state as provided
in section 252K.308.
c. Has enacted a law or established procedures for the issuance and enforcement of
support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter.
d. In which the convention is in force with respect to the United States.
6. “Foreign support order” means a support order of a foreign tribunal.
7. “Foreign tribunal” means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of
a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or
to determine parentage of a child. The term includes a competent authority under the
convention.
8. “Home state” means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or
a person acting as parent for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the time
of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six months
old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with any of them. A period
of temporary absence of any of them is counted as part of the six-month or other period.
9. “Income” includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source
and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state.
10. “Income withholding order” means an order or other legal process directed to an
obligor’s employer or other payor of income, as defined by the income withholding law of
this state, to withhold support from the income of the obligor.
11. “Initiating tribunal” means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a
petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading
is filed or forwarded to another state or foreign country.
12. “Issuing foreign country” means the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a
support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.
13. “Issuingstate”meansthestateinwhichatribunalissuesasupportorderorajudgment
determining parentage of a child.
14. “Issuingtribunal”meansthetribunalofastateorforeigncountrythatissuesasupport
order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.
15. “Law”includesdecisionalandstatutorylawandrulesandregulationshavingtheforce
of law.
16. “Obligee” means any of the following:
a. An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a
support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued.
b. A foreign country, state or political subdivision of a state to which the rights under a
duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims based
on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support.
c. An individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual’s child.
d. A person that is a creditor in a proceeding under article 7.
17. “Obligor” means an individual, or the estate of a decedent, to which any of the
following applies:
a. Who owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support.
b. Who is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child.
c. Who is liable under a support order.
d. Who is a debtor in a proceeding under article 7.
18. “Outside this state” means a location in another state or a country other than the
United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country.
19. “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership,
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limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or
governmentalsubdivision, agency, orinstrumentality, oranyotherlegalorcommercialentity.
20. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored
in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
21. “Register” means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment
determining parentage of a child issued in another state or foreign country.
22. “Registering tribunal” means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment
determining parentage of a child is registered.
23. “Responding state” means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for
support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable
pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or foreign country.
24. “Responding tribunal” means the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign
country.
25. “Spousal support order” means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the
obligor.
26. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of
the United States. The term includes an Indian nation or tribe.
27. “Support enforcement agency” means a public official, government entity, or private
agency authorized to do any of the following:
a. Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support.
b. Seek establishment or modification of child support.
c. Request determination of parentage of a child.
d. Attempt to locate obligors or their assets.
e. Request determination of the controlling child support order.
28. “Support order” means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether
temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the
benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health
care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to
an individual obligee in place of child support. The term may include related costs and fees,
interest, income withholding, automatic adjustment, reasonable attorney’s fees, and other
relief.
29. “Tribunal” means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to
establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child.