20-1692. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. ' Alternate recipient' means a child of a participant who has a right to enrollment under a group health plan pursuant to a medical child support order. 2. ' Child' means an individual who is under eighteen years of age as of the date of the adoption or placement for adoption. 3. ' Group health plan' means a plan covering employees of an employer as defined in section 607(1) of the employee retirement income security act of 1974. 4. ' Placement for adoption' means the assumption and retention by a person of a legal obligation for total or partial support of a child in anticipation of adoption of the child. The child's placement with a person terminates on the termination of the legal obligations. 5. ' Qualified medical child support order' means an order that creates or recognizes an alternate payment right to receive benefits for which a participant or beneficiary is eligible under a group plan.
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