23-4,126. Definitions.
23-4,126
23-4,126. Definitions.As used in K.S.A. 23-4,125 through 23-4,137 and amendmentsthereto:
(a) "Agency" means the state department of social and rehabilitationservices or its contractors and, when the context requires, either thecourt or agency of anyother jurisdiction with functions similar to those defined in K.S.A. 23-4,125through 23-4,137 and amendments thereto, including theissuance and enforcement of support orders.
(b) "Child" means any child, whether older or younger than the age ofmajority, with respect to whom a support order exists.
(c) "Court" means the district court of this state and, when thecontext requires, either the court or agency of any other jurisdiction withfunctions similar to those defined in K.S.A. 23-4,125 through23-4,137 and amendments thereto, including theissuance and enforcement of support orders.
(d) "Income" means income as defined in K.S.A. 23-4,106 andamendments thereto.
(e) "Income derived in this jurisdiction" means any income, the payor ofwhich is subject to the jurisdiction of this state for the purpose ofimposing and enforcing income withholding under K.S.A. 23-4,105through 23-4,118 and amendments thereto.
(f) "Jurisdiction" means any state, political subdivision, territory orpossession of the United States; the District of Columbia; and theCommonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(g) "Obligee" means any person or entity which is entitled to receivesupport under a support order and shall include anagency of anotherjurisdiction to which a person has assigned the person's right to support.
(h) "Obligor" means any person required to make payments under the termsof a support order for a child, spouse or former spouse.
(i) "Payor" means payor as defined in K.S.A. 23-4,106 andamendments thereto.
(j) "Support order" means any order, decree or judgment for the supportof a child, or for maintenance of a spouse or ex-spouse living with a childfor whom an order of support is also being enforced, issued by a court oragency of another jurisdiction, whether interlocutory or final, whetherprospectively or retroactively modifiable and whether incidental to aproceeding for divorce, annulment, separate maintenance, paternity,guardianship, protection from abuse or otherwise.
(k) "Income withholding order" means an order or notice, regardless of howdenominated, which requires a payor to withhold income to satisfy an order tosupport or to defray an arrearage.
History: L. 1985, ch. 115, § 16;L. 1992, ch. 254, § 8; July 1.