As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Income" means all of the following:
a. Any periodic form of payment due an individual, regardless of source, including but not limited to wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, worker's compensation, disability payments, payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program, and interest.
b. A sole payment or lump sum as provided in section 252D.18C.
c. Irregular income as defined in section 252D.18B.
2. "Payor of income" or "payor" means and includes, but is not limited to, an obligor's employer, trustee, the state of Iowa and all governmental subdivisions and agencies and any other person from whom an obligor receives income.
3. "Support" or "support payments" means any amount which the court or administrative agency may require a person to pay for the benefit of a child under a temporary order or a final judgment or decree entered under chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other comparable chapter, and may include child support, maintenance, medical support as defined in chapter 252E, spousal support, and any other term used to describe these obligations. These obligations may include support for a child of any age who is dependent on the parties to the dissolution proceedings because of physical or mental disability. The obligations may include support for a child eighteen or more years of age with respect to whom a child support order has been issued pursuant to the laws of a foreign jurisdiction. These obligations shall not include amounts for a postsecondary education subsidy as defined in section 598.1.
97 Acts, ch 175, §60
Referred to in §18.184, 84A.5, 252B.1, 252B.13A, 252B.14, 252B.24, 252D.1, 252I.1, 252J.1, 627.11, 627.12
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