§ 25-4B-102 — Definitions.

Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Adult," an individual who has attained eighteen years of age or an emancipated minor; (2) "Caretaking authority," the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-day basis. The term includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access, and visitation; (3) "Child,": (a) An unemancipated individual who has not attained eighteen years of age; or (b) An adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than this chapter, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial responsibility; (4) "Court," a tribunal, including an administrative agency, authorized under law of this state other than this chapter to make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility; (5) "Custodial responsibility," includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority and decision-making authority for a child. The term includes physical custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation, and authority to grant limited contact with a child; (6) "Decision-making authority," the power to make important decisions regarding a child, including decisions regarding the child's education, religious training, health care, extracurricular activities, and travel. The term does not include the power to make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking authority; (7) "Deploying parent," a servicemember, who is deployed or has been notified of impending deployment and is: (a) A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or (b) An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than this chapter; (8) "Deployment," the movement or mobilization of a servicemember for more than ninety days but less than eighteen months pursuant to uniformed service orders that: (a) Are designated as unaccompanied; (b) Do not authorize dependent travel; or (c) Otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to the location to which the servicemember is deployed; (9) "Family member," a sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, stepparent, or grandparent of a child or an individual recognized to be in a familial relationship with a child under law of this state other than this chapter; (10) "Limited contact," the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited time. The term includes authority to take the child to a place other than the residence of the child; (11) "Nonparent," an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent; (12) "Other parent," an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is: (a) A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or (b) An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than this chapter; (13) "Record," information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; (14) "Return from deployment," the conclusion of a servicemember's deployment as specified in uniformed service orders; (15) "Servicemember," a member of a uniformed service; (16) "Sign," with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or (b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process; (17) "State," a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; (18) "Uniformed service,": (a) Active and reserve components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States; (b) The United States Merchant Marine; (c) The commissioned corps of the United States Public Health Service; (d) The commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States; or (e) The National Guard of a state.

Legislative History

SL 2014, ch 123, § 2.