Alabama Administrative Code
Title 660 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Chapter 660-3-10 - ALABAMA UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
Section 660-3-10-.02 - Definitions

(a) Child - an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.

(b) Child Support Order - a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country.

(c) Convention - the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007.

(d) Duty of Support - an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support.

(e) Foreign Country - a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders, and:

(f) Foreign Support Order - a support order of a foreign tribunal.

(g) Foreign Tribunal - a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. The term includes a competent authority under the Convention.

(h) Home State - the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with any of them. A period of temporary absence of any of them is counted as part of the six-month or other period.

(i) 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.

(j) Income Withholding Order - an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as defined by Code of Ala. 1975, as amended, by Sections 30-3-60 through 30-3-71, to withhold support from the income of the obligor.

(k) Initiating Tribunal - the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country.

(l) Issuing Foreign Country - the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

(m) Issuing State - the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

(n) Issuing Tribunal - the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

(o) Law includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulation having the force of law.

(p) Obligee means:

(q) Obligor means an individual or the estate of a decedent that:

(r) Outside this State - a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country.

(s) Person - an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(t) Record - information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(u) Register - to file in a tribunal of a state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or foreign country.

(v) Registering Tribunal - a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered.

(w) Responding State - a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or a foreign country.

(x) Responding Tribunal - the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country.

(y) Spousal Support Order - a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor.

(z) State - a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian nation or tribe.

(aa) Support Enforcement Agency - a public official, governmental entity, or private agency authorized to:

(bb) Support Order - a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. The term may include related costs and fees, interest, income withholding, automatic adjustment, reasonable attorney's fees, and other relief.

(cc) Tribunal - a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child.