2006 Kansas Code - 23-4,126

      23-4,126.   Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 23-4,125 through 23-4,137 and amendments thereto:

      (a)   "Agency" means the state department of social and rehabilitation services or its contractors and, when the context requires, either the court or agency of any other jurisdiction with functions similar to those defined in K.S.A. 23-4,125 through 23-4,137 and amendments thereto, including the issuance and enforcement of support orders.

      (b)   "Child" means any child, whether older or younger than the age of majority, with respect to whom a support order exists.

      (c)   "Court" means the district court of this state and, when the context requires, either the court or agency of any other jurisdiction with functions similar to those defined in K.S.A. 23-4,125 through 23-4,137 and amendments thereto, including the issuance and enforcement of support orders.

      (d)   "Income" means income as defined in K.S.A. 23-4,106 and amendments thereto.

      (e)   "Income derived in this jurisdiction" means any income, the payor of which is subject to the jurisdiction of this state for the purpose of imposing and enforcing income withholding under K.S.A. 23-4,105 through 23-4,118 and amendments thereto.

      (f)   "Jurisdiction" means any state, political subdivision, territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

      (g)   "Obligee" means any person or entity which is entitled to receive support under a support order and shall include an agency of another jurisdiction to which a person has assigned the person's right to support.

      (h)   "Obligor" means any person required to make payments under the terms of a support order for a child, spouse or former spouse.

      (i)   "Payor" means payor as defined in K.S.A. 23-4,106 and amendments thereto.

      (j)   "Support order" means any order, decree or judgment for the support of a child, or for maintenance of a spouse or ex-spouse living with a child for whom an order of support is also being enforced, issued by a court or agency of another jurisdiction, whether interlocutory or final, whether prospectively or retroactively modifiable and whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, annulment, separate maintenance, paternity, guardianship, protection from abuse or otherwise.

      (k)   "Income withholding order" means an order or notice, regardless of how denominated, which requires a payor to withhold income to satisfy an order to support or to defray an arrearage.

      History:   L. 1985, ch. 115, § 16; L. 1992, ch. 254, § 8; July 1.