NE Code § 43-4602 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 43 - Infants and Juveniles|43-4602 - Terms, defined.

43-4602.  Terms, defined.In the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act:(1) Adult means an individual who has attained nineteen years of age or an emancipated minor;(2) Caretaking authority means the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-day basis. The term includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access, and visitation;(3) Child means:(A) an unemancipated individual who has not attained nineteen years of age; or(B) an adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than the act, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial responsibility;(4) Court means a tribunal, including an administrative agency, authorized under law of this state other than the act to make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility;(5) Custodial responsibility includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority and decisionmaking authority for a child. The term includes physical custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation, and authority to grant limited contact with a child;(6) Decisionmaking authority means the power to make important decisions regarding a child, including decisions regarding the child's education, religious training, health care, extracurricular activities, and travel. The term does not include the power to make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking authority;(7) Deploying parent means a service member, who is deployed or has been notified of impending deployment, and is:(A) a parent of a child under law of this state other than the act; or(B) an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the act;(8) Deployment means the movement or mobilization of a service member for more than ninety days but less than eighteen months pursuant to uniformed service orders that:(A) are designated as unaccompanied;(B) do not authorize dependent travel; or(C) otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to the location to which the service member is deployed;(9) Family member means a sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, stepparent, or grandparent of a child or an individual recognized to be in a familial relationship with a child under law of this state other than the act;(10) Limited contact means the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited time. The term includes authority to take the child to a place other than the residence of the child;(11) Nonparent means an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent;(12) Other parent means an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is:(A) a parent of a child under law of this state other than the act; or(B) an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the act;(13) Record means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;(14) Return from deployment means the conclusion of a service member's deployment as specified in uniformed service orders;(15) Service member means a member of a uniformed service;(16) Sign means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:(A) to execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or(B) to attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process;(17) 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; and(18) Uniformed service means:(A) active and reserve components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States;(B) the United States Merchant Marine;(C) the commissioned corps of the United States Public Health Service;(D) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States; or(E) the National Guard of a state.Source Laws 2015, LB219, § 2.