78B-12-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Adjusted gross income" means income calculated under Subsection 78B-12-204(1).
(2) "Administrative agency" means the Office of Recovery Services or the Department of
Human Services.
(3) "Administrative order" means an order that has been issued by the Office of Recovery
Services, the Department of Human Services, or an administrative agency of another state or
other comparable jurisdiction with similar authority to that of the office.
(4) "Base child support award" means the award that may be ordered and is calculated
using the guidelines before additions for medical expenses and work-related child care costs.
(5) "Base combined child support obligation table," "child support table," "base child
support obligation table," "low income table," or "table" means the appropriate table in Part 3,
Tables.
(6) "Cash medical support" means an obligation to equally share all reasonable and
necessary medical and dental expenses of children.
(7) "Child" means:
(a) a son or daughter under the age of 18 years who is not otherwise emancipated,
self-supporting, married, or a member of the armed forces of the United States;
(b) a son or daughter over the age of 18 years, while enrolled in high school during the
normal and expected year of graduation and not otherwise emancipated, self-supporting, married,
or a member of the armed forces of the United States; or
(c) a son or daughter of any age who is incapacitated from earning a living and, if able to
provide some financial resources to the family, is not able to support self by own means.
(8) "Child support" means a base child support award, or a monthly financial award for
uninsured medical expenses, ordered by a tribunal for the support of a child, including current
periodic payments, all arrearages which accrue under an order for current periodic payments, and
sum certain judgments awarded for arrearages, medical expenses, and child care costs.
(9) "Child support order" or "support order" means a judgment, decree, or order of a
tribunal whether interlocutory or final, whether or not prospectively or retroactively modifiable,
whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial or legal separation, separate maintenance,
paternity, guardianship, civil protection, or otherwise which:
(a) establishes or modifies child support;
(b) reduces child support arrearages to judgment; or
(c) establishes child support or registers a child support order under Chapter 14, Uniform
Interstate Family Support Act.
(10) "Child support services" or "IV-D child support services" means services provided
pursuant to Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 651 et seq.
(11) "Court" means the district court or juvenile court.
(12) "Guidelines" means the directions for the calculation and application of child
support in Part 2, Calculation and Adjustment.
(13) "Income" means earnings, compensation, or other payment due to an individual,
regardless of source, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, pay,
allowances, contract payment, or otherwise, including severance pay, sick pay, and incentive pay.
"Income" includes:
(a) all gain derived from capital assets, labor, or both, including profit gained through
sale or conversion of capital assets;
(b) interest and dividends;
(c) periodic payments made under pension or retirement programs or insurance policies
of any type;
(d) unemployment compensation benefits;
(e) workers' compensation benefits; and
(f) disability benefits.
(14) "Joint physical custody" means the child stays with each parent overnight for more
than 30% of the year, and both parents contribute to the expenses of the child in addition to
paying child support.
(15) "Medical expenses" means health and dental expenses and related insurance costs.
(16) "Obligee" means an individual, this state, another state, or another comparable
jurisdiction to whom child support is owed or who is entitled to reimbursement of child support
or public assistance.
(17) "Obligor" means any person owing a duty of support.
(18) "Office" means the Office of Recovery Services within the Department of Human
Services.
(19) "Parent" includes a natural parent, or an adoptive parent.
(20) "Split custody" means that each parent has physical custody of at least one of the
children.
(21) "State" includes any state, territory, possession of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Native American Tribe, or other comparable
domestic or foreign jurisdiction.
(22) "Temporary" means a period of time that is projected to be less than 12 months in
duration.
(23) "Third party" means an agency or a person other than the biological or adoptive
parent or a child who provides care, maintenance, and support to a child.
(24) "Tribunal" means the district court, the Department of Human Services, Office of
Recovery Services, or court or administrative agency of any state, territory, possession of the
United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Native American
Tribe, or other comparable domestic or foreign jurisdiction.
(25) "Work-related child care costs" means reasonable child care costs for up to a
full-time work week or training schedule as necessitated by the employment or training of a
parent under Section 78B-12-215.
(26) "Worksheets" means the forms used to aid in calculating the base child support
award.
Amended by Chapter 142, 2009 General Session
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