252B.1 - DEFINITIONS.
252B.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Absent parent" means the parent who either cannot be
located or who is located and is not residing with the child at the
time the support collection or paternity determination services
provided in sections 252B.5 and 252B.6 are requested or commenced.
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. "Child" includes
"child" as defined in section 239B.1.
3. "Child support agency" means child support agency as
defined in section 252H.2.
4. "Department" means the department of human services.
5. "Director" means the director of human services.
6. "Obligor" means the person legally responsible for the
support of a child as defined in section 252D.16 or 598.1 under a
support order issued in this state or a foreign jurisdiction.
7. "Resident parent" means the parent with whom the child is
residing at the time the support collection or paternity
determination services provided in sections 252B.5 and 252B.6 are
requested or commenced.
8. "Unit" means the child support recovery unit created in
section 252B.2. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 252B.1] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 91 Acts, ch 97, § 33; 92 Acts, ch
1195, § 502; 93 Acts, ch 79, §25; 97 Acts, ch 41, § 32; 97 Acts, ch
175, § 23, 24; 98 Acts, ch 1100, §31
Referred to in § 252H.2