Section 452.1202

Title XXX DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Chapter 452

Effective - 28 Aug 2024   

  452.1202.  Definitions. — In sections 452.1200 to 452.1258:

  (1)  "Adult" means an individual who has attained eighteen 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 years of age; or

  (b)  An adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than sections 452.1200 to 452.1258, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial responsibility;

  (4)  "Court" means a tribunal authorized under law of this state other than sections 452.1200 to 452.1258 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 sections 452.1200 to 452.1258; or

  (b)  An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than sections 452.1200 to 452.1258;

  (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 sections 452.1200 to 452.1258;

  (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 sections 452.1200 to 452.1258; or

  (b)  An individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than sections 452.1200 to 452.1258;

  (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;

  (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.

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(L. 2024 S.B. 912)