As used in the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act:A. 'adult' means an individual who has attained eighteen years of age or is an emancipated minor;B. 'caretaking authority' means the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-day basis. 'Caretaking authority' includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access and visitation;C. 'child' means:(1) an unemancipated individual who has not attained eighteen years of age; or(2) an adult son or daughter by birth or adoption, or under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act, who is the subject of a court order concerning custodial responsibility;D. 'court' means a tribunal, including an administrative agency, authorized under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act, to make, enforce or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility;E. 'custodial responsibility' includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority and decision-making authority for a child. 'Custodial responsibility' includes physical custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation and authority to grant limited contact with a child;F. n-making authority for a child. 'Custodial responsibility' includes physical custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation and authority to grant limited contact with a child;F. '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. 'Decision-making authority' does not include the power to make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking authority;G. 'deploying parent' means a service member who is deployed or has been notified of impending deployment and is:(1) a parent of a child under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act; or(2) an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act;H. '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:(1) are designated as unaccompanied;(2) do not authorize dependent travel; or(3) otherwise do not permit the e than ninety days but less than eighteen months pursuant to uniformed service orders that:(1) are designated as unaccompanied;(2) do not authorize dependent travel; or(3) otherwise do not permit the movement of family members to the location to which the service member is deployed;I. '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 the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act;J. 'limited contact' means the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited time. 'Limited contact' includes authority to take the child to a place other than the residence of the child;K. 'nonparent' means an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent;L. 'other parent' means an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is:(1) a parent of a child under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act; or(2) an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act;M. the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act; or(2) an individual who has custodial responsibility for a child under law of this state other than the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act;M. '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;N. 'return from deployment' means the conclusion of a service member's deployment as specified in uniformed service orders;O. 'service member' means a member of a uniformed service;P. 'sign' means with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record to:(1) execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or(2) attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound or process;Q. '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; andR. 'uniformed service' means:(1) active and reserve components of the army, navy, air force, space force, marine corps or coast guard of the United States;(2) the United States merchant marine;(3) the commissioned corps of the United States nd reserve components of the army, navy, air force, space force, marine corps or coast guard of the United States;(2) the United States merchant marine;(3) the commissioned corps of the United States public health service;(4) the commissioned corps of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration of the United States; or(5) the national guard of a state.History: Laws 2014, ch. 4, § 2; 2024, ch. 21, § 6.ANNOTATIONSThe 2024 amendment, effective May 15, 2024, revised the definition of 'uniformed service' to include the space force; and in Subsection R, Paragraph R(1), after 'air force' added 'space force'.
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