252D.16 - DEFINITIONS.
252D.16 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Income" means all of the following:
a. Any periodic form of payment due an individual, regardless
of source, including but not limited to wages, salaries, commissions,
bonuses, workers' compensation, disability payments, payments
pursuant to a pension or retirement program, and interest.
b. A sole payment or lump sum as provided in section
252D.18C, including but not limited to payment from an estate
including inheritance, or payment for personal injury or property
damage.
c. Irregular income as defined in section 252D.18B.
2. "Payor of income" or "payor" means and includes, but
is not limited to, an obligor's employer, trustee, the state of Iowa
and all governmental subdivisions and agencies and any other person
from whom an obligor receives income.
3. "Support" or "support payments" means any amount which
the court or administrative agency may require a person to pay for
the benefit of a child under a temporary order or a final judgment or
decree entered under chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 598,
600B, or any other comparable chapter, and may include child support,
maintenance, medical support as defined in chapter 252E, spousal
support, and any other term used to describe these obligations.
These obligations may include support for a child of any age who is
dependent on the parties to the dissolution proceedings because of
physical or mental disability. The obligations may include support
for a child eighteen or more years of age with respect to whom a
child support order has been issued pursuant to the laws of a foreign
jurisdiction. These obligations shall not include amounts for a
postsecondary education subsidy as defined in section 598.1. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 175, §60; 2005 Acts, ch 112, §10
Referred to in § 8A.222, 84A.5, 252B.1, 252B.13A, 252B.14,
252B.24, 252D.1, 252D.16A, 252I.1, 252J.1, 627.11, 627.12