252D.16 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Income” means all of the following:
a. Any periodic form of payment due an individual, regardless of source, including but not limited to wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, workers’ compensation, disability payments, payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program, and interest.
b. A sole payment or lump sum as provided in section 252D.18C, including but not limited to payment from an estate including inheritance, or payment for personal injury or property damage.
c. Irregular income as defined in section 252D.18B.
2. “Payor of income” or “payor” means and includes, but is not limited to, an obligor’s employer, trustee, the state of Iowa and all governmental subdivisions and agencies and any other person from whom an obligor receives income.
3. “Support” or “support payments” means any amount which the court or administrative agency may require a person to pay for the benefit of a child under a temporary order or a final judgment or decree entered under chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other comparable chapter, and may include child support, maintenance, medical support as defined in chapter 252E, spousal support, and any other term used to describe these obligations. These obligations may include support for a child of any age who is dependent on the parties to the dissolution proceedings because of physical or mental disability. The obligations may include support for a child eighteen or more years of age with respect to whom a child support order has been issued pursuant to the laws of another state or foreign country. These obligations shall not include amounts for a postsecondary education subsidy as defined in section 598.1.
97 Acts, ch 175, §60; 2005 Acts, ch 112, §10; 2015 Acts, ch 110, §93
Referred to in §8B.32, 84A.5, 252B.1, 252B.13A, 252B.14, 252B.24, 252D.1, 252D.16A, 252I.1, 252J.1, 627.11, 627.12
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 252D - SUPPORT PAYMENTS — INCOME WITHHOLDING
Section 252D.1 - Delinquent support payments.
Section 252D.3 - Notice of income withholding.
Section 252D.8 - Persons subject to immediate income withholding.
Section 252D.9 - Sums subject to immediate withholding.
Section 252D.10 - Notice of immediate income withholding.
Section 252D.16 - Definitions.
Section 252D.16A - Income withholding order — child support recovery unit.
Section 252D.17 - Notice to payor of income — duties and liability — criminal penalty.
Section 252D.17A - Notice to obligor of implementation of income withholding order.
Section 252D.18 - Modification or termination of withholding.
Section 252D.18A - Multiple income withholding orders — amounts withheld by payor.
Section 252D.18B - Irregular income.
Section 252D.18C - Withholding from lump sum payments.
Section 252D.19 - Other remedies.
Section 252D.19A - Disparity between order and pay dates — not delinquent.
Section 252D.20 - Administration of income withholding procedures.
Section 252D.21 - Penalty for misrepresentation.
Section 252D.23 - Filing of withholding order — order effective as district court order.
Section 252D.24 - Applicability to support orders of other jurisdictions.
Section 252D.25 - Limitations on scope of proceedings.
Section 252D.30 - Ex parte order — provisions for medical support.