West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 97 - Child Support Enforcement Division › Title 97 - LEGISLATIVE RULE BUREAU FOR CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT › Series 97-07 - Distribution of Support Payments › Section 97-7-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. Bureau. - The Bureau for Child Support Enforcement. The Bureau for Child Support Enforcement is established by W. Va. Code §
									48-18-101 and is designated as the single state agency to fulfill the obligations of the State of West Virginia under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. Pursuant to W. Va. Code §
									48-18-122, the bureau operates the central state case registry.
2.2. Cash public assistance. - Monetary benefits provided to eligible individuals under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act. Eligibility for these benefits involves meeting income, asset and household composition requirements.
2.3. Department. - The Department of Health and Human Resources. The Department of Health and Human Resources is established pursuant to W. Va. Code §
									5F-1-2 and contains within it the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement.
2.4. Obligee. - An individual or the estate of a decedent to whom a duty of support is owed or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order has been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been rendered; or a state or political subdivision to which the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee; or an individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child.
2.5. Obligor. - An individual or the estate of a decedent who owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support, or who is alleged, but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child, or who is liable under an order of support.
2.6. Order of Support. - A judgment, decree or order, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued by a court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, for the support and maintenance of a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state, or a child and the parent with whom the child is living, or the support and maintenance of a spouse or former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearage or reimbursements.
2.7. Support. - The payment of money, including interest, for a child or spouse, ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or an administrative agency authorized to establish support obligations, whether the payment is ordered in an emergency, temporary, permanent or modified order. Support may include a payment to third parties on behalf of a child or spouse, including, but not limited to, interest, payments to medical, dental or educational providers, payments to insurers for health and hospitalization insurance, payments of residential rent or mortgage payments, payments on an automobile or payments for day care; or the payment of money, including interest, to a mother for the necessary expenses incurred by or for the mother in connection with her confinement or of other expenses in connection with the pregnancy of the mother.
2.8. Voluntary cooperation Medicaid cases B Medicaid recipients who are not required to cooperate with the establishment of paternity or the establishment and enforcement of child support obligations. These include recipients of Transitional Medicaid, Child-Only Medicaid recipients, and Medicaid cases where a pregnant woman is the only recipient of the service.