K.S.A. § 39-7,138 — KS Code / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 39-7,138
39-7,138 - Definitions.
Status: in_force

39-7,138. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in any IV-D administrative proceeding related to K.S.A. 39-7,137 through 39-7,152, and amendments thereto, except where the context requires otherwise.

(a) "Account" means a demand deposit account, checking or negotiable withdrawal order account, savings account, time deposit account or money-market mutual fund account.

(b) "Arrearages" means past due support under any support order of any tribunal of this or any other state, including, but not limited to, the unpaid balance of any costs awarded, public assistance debt or accrued interest.

(c) "Business day" means a day on which state offices in Kansas are open for regular business.

(d) "Cash asset" means any intangible property that consistently maintains a fair market value of one dollar per unit. It shall be presumed that any account held by a financial institution and from which the obligor may make cash withdrawals, with or without penalty, consists entirely of cash assets.

(e) "Current support" includes, but is not limited to, the duty to provide for a child's ongoing medical needs through cash, insurance coverage or other means. "Current support" does not include any periodic amount specified to defray arrearages.

(f) "Custodial parent" means the parent or other person receiving IV-D services on the child's behalf and may include an agency acting in loco parentis, a guardian, or a blood or adoptive relative with whom the child resides.

(g) "Duty of support" means any duty to support another person that is imposed or imposable by law or by any order, decree or judgment of any tribunal, whether interlocutory or final or whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial separation, separate maintenance or otherwise, including, but not limited to, the duty to provide current support, the duty to provide medical support, the duty to pay birth expenses, the duty to pay a public assistance debt and the duty to pay arrearages.

(h) "Financial institution" means any financial institution as defined in 469A of the federal social security act, 42 U.S.C. § 469A, and amendments thereto.

(i) "Holder" means any person who is or may be in possession or control of any cash asset of the responsible parent.

(j) "IV-D" or "title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the federal social security act, 42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq., and amendments thereto, as in effect on May 1, 1997. "IV-D services" means those services the secretary provides pursuant to title IV-D.

(k) "Party" means the secretary, the responsible parent, the custodial parent or the child or any assignee or other successor in interest to any of them.

(l) "Public assistance debt" means the obligation to reimburse public assistance as described in K.S.A. 39-718b or 39-719, and amendments thereto, or in any similar law of this or any other state.

(m) "Responsible parent" means, if a child is receiving or has received IV-D services from the secretary, the mother, father or alleged father of the child.

(n) "Secretary" means the secretary for children and families or a designee of the secretary.

(o) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term "state" includes an Indian tribe and includes any jurisdiction declared a foreign reciprocating country by the United States secretary of state and any foreign jurisdiction that has established procedures for issuance and enforcement of child support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures of this state. It shall be presumed that a foreign jurisdiction which is the subject of an unrevoked declaration by the attorney general pursuant to K.S.A. 23-3601, and amendments thereto, is a state as defined in this subsection.

(p) "Support order" means any order by which a person's duty of support is established, including, but not limited to, any order modifying a prior support order.

(q) "Tribunal" means any court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, modify or enforce support orders or to determine parentage. With respect to support orders entered in this state, the courts are the tribunals in Kansas.