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.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Act" means the federal Social Security Act.
2. "Adjustment" applies only to the child support provisions of a support order and means either of the following:
a. A change in the amount of child support based upon an application of the child support guidelines established pursuant to section 598.21, subsection 4.
b. An addition of or change to provisions for medical support as defined in section 252E.1.
3. "Child" means a child as defined in section 252B.1.
4. "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 Title IV-D of the Act.
5. "Child support recovery unit" or "unit" means the child support recovery unit created pursuant to section 252B.2.
6. "Modification" means either of the following:
a. An alteration, change, correction, or termination of an existing support order.
b. 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.
7. "Parent" means, for the purposes of requesting a review of a support order and for being entitled to notice under this chapter:
a. The individual ordered to pay support pursuant to the order.
b. 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.
8. "Public assistance" means benefits received in this state or any other state, under Title IV-A (aid to dependent children), IV-E (foster care), or XIX (medicaid) of the Act.
9. "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:
a. The appropriate monetary amount of support.
b. Provisions for medical support.
10. "State" means "state" as defined in section 252A.2.
11. "Support order" means a "court order" as defined in section 252C.1 or an order establishing support entered pursuant to an administrative or quasi-judicial process if authorized by law.
93 Acts, ch 78, §25; 93 Acts, ch 79, §47
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