Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 43-601-102

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In this act:

1. "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age

of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by

the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the

beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent;

2. "Child support order" means a support order for a child,

including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law

of the issuing state or foreign country;

3. "Convention" means the Convention on the International

Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance,

concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007;

4. "Duty of support" means an obligation imposed or imposable

by law to provide support for a child, spouse or former spouse,

including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support;

5. "Foreign country" means a country, including a political

subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes

the issuance of support orders and:

a. which has been declared under the law of the United

States to be a foreign reciprocating country,

b. which has established a reciprocal arrangement for

child support with this state as provided in Section

601-308 of this title,

c. which has enacted a law or established procedures for

the issuance and enforcement of support orders which

are substantially similar to the procedures under this

act, or

d. in which the Convention is in force with respect to

the United States;

6. "Foreign support order" means a support order of a foreign

tribunal;

7. "Foreign tribunal" means a court, administrative agency or

quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to

establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine

parentage of a child. The term includes a competent authority under

the Convention;

8. "Home state" means the state or foreign country in which a

child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least

six (6) consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing

of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is

less than six (6) months old, the state or foreign country in which

the child lived from birth with any of them. A period of temporary

absence of any of them is counted as part of the six-month or other

period;

9. "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to

money from any source and any other property subject to withholding

for support under the law of this state;

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10. "Income-withholding order" means an order or other legal

process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as

defined by the income-withholding law of this state, to withhold

support from the income of the obligor;

11. "Initiating tribunal" means the tribunal of a state or

foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is

forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for

forwarding to another state or foreign country;

12. "Issuing foreign country" means the foreign country in

which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining

parentage of a child;

13. "Issuing state" means the state in which a tribunal issues

a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child;

14. "Issuing tribunal" means the tribunal that issues a support

order or a judgment determining parentage of a child;

15. "Law" includes decisional and statutory law and rules and

regulations having the force of law;

16. "Obligee" means:

a. an individual to whom a duty of support is or is

alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order

or a judgment determining parentage of a child has

been issued,

b. a foreign country, state or political subdivision of a

state to which the rights under a duty of support or

support order have been assigned or which has

independent claims based on financial assistance
"Obligee" means:

a. an individual to whom a duty of support is or is

alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order

or a judgment determining parentage of a child has

been issued,

b. a foreign country, state or political subdivision of a

state to which the rights under a duty of support or

support order have been assigned or which has

independent claims based on financial assistance

provided to an individual obligee in place of child

support,

c. an individual seeking a judgment determining parentage

of the individual's child, or

d. a person that is a creditor in a proceeding under

Article 7;

17. "Obligor" means an individual or the estate of a decedent

that:

a. owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support,

b. is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent

of a child,

c. is liable under a support order, or

d. is a debtor in a proceeding under Article 7;

18. "Outside this state" means a location in another state or a

country other than the United States, whether or not the country is

a foreign country;

19. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,

estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association,

joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental

subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or

commercial entity;

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20. "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;

21. "Register" means to record or file in a tribunal of this

state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child

issued in another state or a foreign country;

22. "Registering tribunal" means a tribunal in which a support

order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered;

23. "Responding state" means a state in which a petition or

comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child

is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded

for filing from another state or a foreign country;

24. "Responding tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in a

responding state or foreign country;

25. "Spousal support order" means a support order for a spouse

or former spouse of the obligor;

26. "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 under the jurisdiction of the United

States. The term includes an Indian nation or tribe;

27. "Support enforcement agency" means a public official,

governmental entity, or private agency authorized to:

a. seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to

the duty of support,

b. seek establishment or modification of child support,

c. request determination of parentage of a child,

d. attempt to locate obligors or their assets, or

e. request determination of the controlling child support

order;

28. "Support order" means a judgment, decree, order, decision,

or directive, whether temporary, final or subject to modification,

issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a

spouse or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support,

health care, arrearages, retroactive support or reimbursement for

financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of

child support. The term may include related costs and fees,

interest, income withholding, automatic adjustment, reasonable

attorney fees, and other relief; and

29. "Tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-

judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support

orders or to determine parentage of a child.