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 "dependent children" as defined in section 239.1.
3. "Department" means the department of human services.
4. "Director" means the director of human services.
5. "Obligor" means the person legally responsible for the support of a child as defined in section 598.1 under a support order issued in this state or a foreign jurisdiction.
6. "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.
7. "Unit" means the child support recovery unit created in section 252B.2.
[C77, 79, 81, § 252B.1]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 91 Acts, ch 97, § 33; 92 Acts, ch 1195, § 502; 93 Acts, ch 79, §25
Referred to in § 252H.2
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