As used in this chapter, unless the context shall require otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:
1. "Birth center" means birth center as defined in section 135G.2.
2. "Birthing hospital" means a private or public hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B that has a licensed obstetric unit or is licensed to provide obstetric services, or a licensed birthing center associated with a hospital.
3. "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.
4. "Court" shall mean and include any court by whatever name known, in any state having reciprocal laws or laws substantially similar to this chapter upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents within and without such state.
5. "Dependent" shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support by the laws of the state or states wherein the petitioner and the respondent reside.
6. "Initiating state" shall mean the state of domicile or residence of the petitioner.
7. "Institution" means a birthing hospital or birth center.
8. "Petitioner" shall mean and include each dependent person for whom support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter.
9. "Petitioner's representative" shall mean and include a corporation counsel, county attorney, state's attorney, commonwealth attorney and any other public officer, by whatever title the officer's public office may be known, charged by law with the duty of instituting, maintaining or prosecuting a proceeding under this chapter or under the laws of the state or states wherein the petitioner and the respondent reside.
10. "Putative father" means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child.
11. "Register" means to file a foreign support order in the registry of foreign support orders maintained as a filing in equity by the clerk of court.
12. "Rendering state" means a state in which the court has issued a support order for which registration is sought or granted in the court of another state.
13. "Respondent" shall mean and include each person against whom a proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter.
14. "Responding state" shall mean the state wherein the respondent resides or is domiciled or found.
15. "State" means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any foreign jurisdiction in which this or a similar reciprocal law is in effect.
16. "State registrar" means state registrar as defined in section 144.1.
17. "Summons" shall mean and include a subpoena, warrant, citation, order or other notice, by whatever name known, provided for by the laws of the state or states wherein the petitioner and the respondent reside as the means for requiring the appearance and attendance in court of the respondent in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter.
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 252A.2; 82 Acts, ch 1004, § 6, 7]
93 Acts, ch 79, §11; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §10, 11
Referred to in § 252H.2
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