403A.102 Definitions for chapter.
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As used in this chapter:
(1)"Adult" means an individual who has attained eighteen
(18)years of age or an
emancipated minor;
(2)"Caretaking authority" means the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-
day basis. The term includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access, and
visitation;
(3)"Child" means:
(a)An unemancipated individual who has not attained eighteen
(18)years of age;
or
(b)An adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other
than this chapter, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial
responsibility;
(4)"Court" means a tribunal authorized under law of this state other than this chapter to
make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility;
(5)"Custodial responsibility" includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking
authority and decision-making authority for a child. The term includes physical
custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation, and authority to
grant limited contact with a child;
(6)"Decision-making authority" means the power to make important decisions
regarding a child, including decisions regarding the child's education, religious
training, health care, extracurricular activities, and travel. The term does not include
the power to make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking
authority;
(7)"Deploying parent" means a service member who is deployed or has been notified
of impending deployment and is:
(a)A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or
(b)An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this
state other than this chapter;
(8)"Deployment" means the movement or mobilization of a service member for more
than ninety
(90)days but less than eighteen
(18)months pursuant to uniformed
service orders that:
(a)Are designated as unaccompanied;
(b)Do not authorize dependent travel; or
(c)Otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to the location to
which the service member is deployed;
(9)"Family member" means a sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, stepparent, or grandparent of
a child or an individual recognized to be in a familial relationship with a child under
law of this state other than this chapter;
(10)"Limited contact" means the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited
time. The term includes authority to take the child to a place other than the
residence of the child;
(11)"Nonparent" means an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent;
(12)"Other parent" means an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is:
(a)A parent of a child under law of this state other than this chapter; or
(b)An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this
state other than this chapter;
(13)"Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored
in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;
(14)"Return from deployment" means the conclusion of a service member's deployment
as specified in uniformed service orders;
(15)"Service member" means a member of a uniformed service;
(16)"Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
(a)To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
(b)To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol,
sounds, or process;
(17)"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; and
(18)"Uniformed service" means:
(a)Active and reserve components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps,
or Coast Guard of the United States;
(b)The United States Merchant Marine;
(c)The commissioned corps of the United States Public Health Service;
(d)The commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration of the United States; or
(e)The National Guard of a state.