Iowa Code 252H.4 – Role of child support services
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1. Child support services may administratively adjust or modify or may provide for an administrative cost-of-living alteration of a support order entered under chapter 234, 252A, 252C, 598, or 600B, or any other support chapter if child support services is providing enforcement services pursuant to chapter 252B. Child support services is not required to intervene to administratively adjust or modify or provide for an administrative cost-of-living alteration of a support order under this chapter.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 252H.4
- 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. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Child: means a child as defined in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252H.2
- Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252H.2
- Cost-of-living alteration: means a change in an existing child support order which equals an amount which is the amount of the support obligation following application of the percentage change of the consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States city average, as published in the federal register by the federal department of labor, bureau of labor statistics. See Iowa Code 252H.2
- Modification: means either of the following:(1) A change, correction, or termination of an existing support order. See Iowa Code 252H.2
- Parent: means , for the purposes of requesting a review of a support order and for being entitled to notice under this chapter:
(1) The individual ordered to pay support pursuant to the order. See Iowa Code 252H.2- Party: means a petitioner, a respondent, or a person who intervenes in a proceeding instituted under this chapter. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Review: means an objective evaluation conducted through a proceeding before a court, administrative body, or an agency, of information necessary for the application of a state's mandatory child support guidelines to determine:
(1) The appropriate monetary amount of support. See Iowa Code 252H.2- Support order: means an order for support issued pursuant to this chapter, chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252E, 252F, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country as registered with the clerk of court or certified to child support services. See Iowa Code 252H.2
2. Child support services is a party to an action initiated pursuant to this chapter.3. Child support services shall conduct a review to determine whether an adjustment is appropriate or, upon the request of a parent or upon child support services‘ own initiative, determine whether a modification is appropriate.4. Child support services shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to establish the process for the review of requests for adjustment, the criteria and procedures for conducting a review and determining when an adjustment is appropriate, the procedure and criteria for a cost-of-living alteration, the criteria and procedure for a request for review pursuant to section 252H.18A, and other rules necessary to implement this chapter.5. Legal representation of child support services shall be provided pursuant to section 252B.7, subsection 4. - Parent: means , for the purposes of requesting a review of a support order and for being entitled to notice under this chapter: