252H.2 - DEFINITIONS.
252H.2 DEFINITIONS.
1. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
requires, "administrator", "caretaker", "court order",
"department", "dependent child", "medical support", and
"responsible person" mean the same as defined in section 252C.1.
2. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
requires:
a. "Act" means the federal Social Security Act.
b. "Adjustment" applies only to the child support provisions
of a support order and means either of the following:
(1) A change in the amount of child support based upon an
application of the child support guidelines established pursuant to
section 598.21B.
(2) An addition of or change to provisions for medical support as
provided in chapter 252E.
c. "Child" means a child as defined in section 252B.1.
d. "Child support agency" means any state, county, or local
office or entity of another state that has the responsibility for
providing child support enforcement services under Tit. IV-D of the
Act.
e. "Child support recovery unit" or "unit" means the
child support recovery unit created pursuant to section 252B.2.
f. "Cost-of-living alteration" means a change in an existing
child support order which equals an amount which is the amount of the
support obligation following application of the percentage change of
the consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States city
average, as published in the federal register by the federal
department of labor, bureau of labor statistics.
g. "Determination of controlling order" means the process of
identifying a child support order which must be recognized pursuant
to section 252K.207 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738B, when more than one state
has issued a support order for the same child and the same obligor.
Registration of a foreign order is not necessary for a court or the
unit to make a determination of controlling order.
h. "Modification" means either of the following:
(1) A change, correction, or termination of an existing support
order.
(2) The establishment of a child or medical support obligation in
a previously established order entered pursuant to chapter 234, 252A,
252C, 598, 600B, or any other support proceeding, in which such
support was not previously established, or in which support was
previously established and subsequently terminated prior to the
emancipation of the children affected.
i. "Parent" means, for the purposes of requesting a review of
a support order and for being entitled to notice under this chapter:
(1) The individual ordered to pay support pursuant to the order.
(2) An individual or entity entitled to receive current or future
support payments pursuant to the order, or pursuant to a current
assignment of support including but not limited to an agency of this
or any other state that is currently providing public assistance
benefits to the child for whom support is ordered and any child
support agency. Service of notice of an action initiated under this
chapter on an agency is not required, but the agency may be advised
of the action by other means.
j. "Public assistance" means benefits received in this state
or any other state, under Tit. IV-A (temporary assistance to needy
families), IV-E (foster care), or XIX (Medicaid) of the Act.
k. "Review" means an objective evaluation conducted through a
proceeding before a court, administrative body, or an agency, of
information necessary for the application of a state's mandatory
child support guidelines to determine:
(1) The appropriate monetary amount of support.
(2) Provisions for medical support.
l. "State" means "state" as defined in section 252K.101.
m. "Support order" means an order for support issued pursuant
to chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252E, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any
other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of a foreign
jurisdiction as registered with the clerk of court or certified to
the child support recovery unit. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 78, §25; 93 Acts, ch 79, §47; 97 Acts, ch 175,
§94--96; 98 Acts, ch 1170, §35; 2002 Acts, ch 1018, §10; 2005 Acts,
ch 69, §20; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §179, 180, 187; 2008 Acts, ch 1019,
§18, 20; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §263
Referred to in § 252B.1, 252I.4, 252J.1 Footnotes
For transition provisions applicable to existing child support
recovery unit rules, procedures, definitions, and requirements, and
for nullification of 441 IAC rule 98.3, see 2007 Acts, ch 218, §186