HRS § 576E-1 Definitions

• Library: Hawaii Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 Legislative Session
• Year: 2023
• Citation: HRS § 576E-1

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Administrative order" means the order resulting from an administrative adjudication by a hearings officer or the attorney general, through the agency, of the final disposition of a matter before the agency.

"Agency" means the child support enforcement agency established by section 576D-2.

"Arrearage" means past due child support under an existing court or administrative order.

"Child support" means payment for the necessary support and maintenance of a child as required by law that includes but is not limited to spousal support when being enforced in conjunction with child support or medical support when a court or administrative order requires the debtor parent to pay an amount in lieu of providing medical insurance coverage or to reimburse for maternity and delivery expenses incurred when the debtor parent's child was born.

"Compliance with an order of support" means that an obligor:

(1) Is not delinquent in payments in an amount equal to or greater than the sum of payments which would become due for child support, for a three-month period with regard to driver's and recreational licenses and for a six-month period with regard to professional and vocational licenses;

(2) Is not delinquent in making periodic payments on a support arrearage pursuant to a written agreement with the child support enforcement agency under section 576D-13(d); or

(3) Has obtained or maintained health insurance coverage as required by a child support order.

"Court" means the family courts of this State and, when the context requires, a court or agency of any other state having jurisdiction to establish, modify, and enforce support obligations.

"Custodial parent" means a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody of the child.

"Department" means the department of the attorney general.

"Dependent child" means any person to whom a duty of support is owed.

"Duty of support" means any duty of support imposed or imposable by law, or by any court order, decree, or judgment, whether interlocutory or final or whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial separation, separate maintenance, or otherwise, and includes the duty to pay arrearages of support past due and unpaid.

"Employee" means any person working for another for hire, including but not limited to, an individual employed in domestic service or at a family's or person's home or any individual employed by the individual's parent or spouse, or independent contractors.