252A.2 - DEFINITIONS.
252A.2 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context shall require
otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to
them by this section:
1. "Birthing hospital" means a private or public hospital
licensed pursuant to chapter 135B that has a licensed obstetric unit
or is licensed to provide obstetric services, or a licensed birthing
center associated with a hospital.
2. "Child" includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild,
foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or
apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person
eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's
self and is likely to become a public charge.
3. "Court" shall mean and include any court upon which
jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons
for the support of dependents.
4. "Dependent" shall mean and include a spouse, child,
mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and
entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally
liable for such support.
5. "Institution" means a birthing hospital.
6. "Party" means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who
intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter.
7. "Petitioner" includes each dependent person for whom
support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter
or a mother or putative father of a dependent. However, in an action
brought by the child support recovery unit, the state is the
petitioner.
8. "Petitioner's representative" includes counsel of a
dependent person for whom support is sought and counsel for a mother
or putative father of a dependent. In an action brought by the child
support recovery unit, "petitioner's representative" includes a
county attorney, state's attorney and any other public officer, by
whatever title the officer's public office may be known, charged by
law with the duty of instituting, maintaining, or prosecuting a
proceeding under this chapter or under the laws of the state.
9. "Putative father" means a man who is alleged to be or who
claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom
the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child.
10. "Register" means to file a foreign support order in the
registry of foreign support orders maintained as a filing in equity
by the clerk of court.
11. "Respondent" includes each person against whom a
proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter. "Respondent"
may include the mother or the putative father of a dependent.
12. "State registrar" means state registrar as defined in
section 144.1. Section History: Early Form
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 252A.2; 82 Acts,
ch 1004, § 6, 7] Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 79, §11; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §10, 11; 97 Acts, ch 175, §
9; 2002 Acts, ch 1162, §78