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Terms Used In Utah Code 78B-14-501

  • Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other source of income as defined in Section 26B-9-101, to withhold support from the income of the obligor. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Obligee: means :
         (16)(a) an individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued;
         (16)(b) a foreign country, state, or political subdivision of a state 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 in place of child support;
         (16)(c) an individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child; or
         (16)(d) a person who is a creditor in a proceeding under Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Obligor: means an individual who, or the estate of a decedent that:
         (17)(a) owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;
         (17)(b) is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;
         (17)(c) is liable under a support order; or
         (17)(d) is a debtor in a proceeding under Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • 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. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Utah Code 78B-14-102

     An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support-enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor‘s employer under Title 26B, Chapter 9, Part 3, Income Withholding in IV-D Cases, and Title 26B, Chapter 9, Part 4, Income Withholding in Non IV-D Cases, without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.