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' ority 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 e 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) n 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 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. -------- (L. 2024 S.B. 912)
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