43-4602. Terms, defined.
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In the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act:
(1)Adult means an individual who has attained nineteen 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 nineteen years of age; or
(B)an adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than the act, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial responsibility;
(4)Court means a tribunal, including an administrative agency, authorized under law of this state other than the act to make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility;
(5)Custodial responsibility includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority and decisionmaking 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)Decisionmaking 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 the act; or
(B)an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the act;
(8)Deployment means the movement or mobilization of a service member for more than ninety days but less than eighteen 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 the act;
(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 the act; or
(B)an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the act;
(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, sound, 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.