North Dakota Century Code Title 14. Domestic Relations and Persons § 14-09-09.10. Definitions

1. “Arrears registry” means the registry maintained under section 50-09-02.7.

2. “Business day” means every day that is not a Saturday or legal holiday.

3. “Child support” means payments for the support of a child, including payments for health insurance coverage or other medical support, and payments for the support of spouses or former spouses with whom the child is living as long as the spousal support payment is owed to the spouse or former spouse under the same order as the payments for the child, if the payment is required by the order of a court or other governmental agency having authority to issue such orders, and includes past-due support.

4. “Child support agency” means the department of health and human services in execution of its duties pursuant to the state plan submitted under chapter 50-09 in conformance with title IV-D of the Social Security Act [Pub. L. 93-647; 88 Stat. 2351; 42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.].

5. “Delinquent” means a situation which occurs on the first working day after the day upon which a child support payment was identified as due and unpaid, and the total amount of unpaid child support is at least equal to the amount of child support payable in one month.

6. “Disposable income” means gross income less deductions required by law for taxes and social security.

7. “Employer” means income payer.

8. “Health insurance” includes fees for service, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, comprehensive health association plan, accident and health insurance policies, group health plans as defined in section 607(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 [Pub. L. 99-272; 100 Stat. 281; 29 U.S.C. 1167(1)], and other types of coverage under which major medical coverage may be provided in a policy, plan, or contract which may legally be sold or provided in this state.

9. “Income” means any form of payment, regardless of source, owed to an obligor, including any earned, unearned, taxable or nontaxable income, workforce safety and insurance benefits, disability benefits, unemployment compensation benefits, annuity and retirement benefits, but excluding public assistance benefits administered under state law.

10. “Income payer” means any person, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association, political subdivision, or department or agency of the state or federal government owing income to an obligor and includes an obligor if the obligor is self-employed.

11. “Monthly support obligation” means an amount of child support ordered by a court or administrative tribunal in a proceeding to establish or modify a child support obligation, including amounts that are deferred for payment at a later date.The term is defined without regard to any amount of child support that an obligor is required to pay to avoid being held in contempt of court. If an amount of past-due support has been ordered as a lump sum rather than determined on a monthly basis, “monthly support obligation” means one hundred sixty-eight dollars.

12. “Obligee” means a person, including a state or political subdivision, to whom a duty of support is owed.

13. “Obligor” means any person owing a duty of support.

14. “Past-due support” means child support that is not paid by the earlier of:

15. “Payday” means the day upon which the income payer pays or otherwise credits the obligor.