Section 252A.2 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context shall require otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:
1."Birthing hospital" means a private or public hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B that has a licensed obstetric unit or is licensed to provide obstetric services, or a licensed birthing center associated with a hospital.2."Child" includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge.3."Court" shall mean and include any court upon which jurisdiction has been conferred to determine the liability of persons for the support of dependents.4."Dependent" shall mean and include a spouse, child, mother, father, grandparent, or grandchild who is in need of and entitled to support from a person who is declared to be legally liable for such support.5."Institution" means a birthing hospital.6."Party" means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter.7."Petitioner" includes each dependent person for whom support is sought in a proceeding instituted pursuant to this chapter or a mother or putative father of a dependent. However, in an action brought by child support services, the state is the petitioner.8."Petitioner's representative" includes counsel of a dependent person for whom support is sought and counsel for a mother or putative father of a dependent. In an action brought by child support services, "Petitioner's representative" includes a county attorney, state's attorney, and any other public officer, by whatever title the officer's public office may be known, charged by law with the duty of instituting, maintaining, or prosecuting a proceeding under this chapter or under the laws of the state.9."Putative father" means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child.10."Respondent" includes each person against whom a proceeding is instituted pursuant to this chapter. "Respondent" may include the mother or the putative father of a dependent.11."State registrar" means state registrar as defined in section 144.1.93 Acts, ch 79, §11; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §10, 11; 97 Acts, ch 175, §9; 2002 Acts, ch 1162, §78; 2015 Acts, ch 110, §77; 2023 Acts, ch 19, § 838
Amended by 2023 Iowa, ch 19, s 838, eff. 7/1/2023.Amended by 2015 Iowa, ch 110,s 77, eff. 7/1/2015.C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §252A.2; 82 Acts, ch 1004, §6, 7
93 Acts, ch 79, §11; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §10, 11; 97 Acts, ch 175, §9; 2002 Acts, ch 1162, §78Subsections 7 and 8 amended