Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 81 - Retired Volunteer Health Care Practitioner Act

• Arrears: means the same as support debt. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means public assistance as defined in Section 26B-9-101. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Child: means :
       (6)(a) a son or daughter under the age of 18 years who is not otherwise emancipated, self-supporting, married, or a member of the armed forces of the United States;
       (6)(b) a son or daughter over the age of 18 years, while enrolled in high school during the normal and expected year of graduation and not otherwise emancipated, self-supporting, married, or a member of the armed forces of the United States; or
       (6)(c) a son or daughter of any age who is incapacitated from earning a living and is without sufficient means. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Child support: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-301. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Guidelines: means the same as that term is defined in Section 78B-12-102. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligee: means an individual, this state, another state, or other comparable jurisdiction to whom a duty of child support is owed, or who is entitled to reimbursement of child support or public assistance. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Obligor: means a person, firm, corporation, or the estate of a decedent owing a duty of support to this state, to an individual, to another state, or other corporate jurisdiction in whose behalf this state is acting. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Office: means the Office of Recovery Services. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Person: includes an individual, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, department, or office. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Support: includes past-due, present, and future obligations established by:
       (27)(a) a tribunal or imposed by law for the financial support, maintenance, medical, or dental care of a dependent child; and
       (27)(b) a tribunal for the financial support of a spouse or former spouse with whom the obligor's dependent child resides if the obligor also owes a child support obligation that is being enforced by the state. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Support order: means the same as child support order. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• Tribunal: means the district court, the department, the Office of Recovery Services, or court or administrative agency of any state, territory, possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Native American Tribe, or other comparable domestic or foreign jurisdiction. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5