§ 14-09-00.1 Definitions
§ 14-09-06.2 Best interests and welfare of child – Court consideration – Factors
§ 14-09-06.3 Parenting investigations and reports – Costs
§ 14-09-06.4 Appointment of attorney guardian ad litem for child in proceedings involving parental rights and responsibilities – Immunity
§ 14-09-06.5 Allegation of harm to child – Effect
§ 14-09-06.6 Limitations on postjudgment modifications of primary residential responsibility
§ 14-09-07 Residence of child
§ 14-09-08 Mutual duty to support children
§ 14-09-08.1 Support payments – Payment to state disbursement unit – Transfer of proceedings for enforcement of decree – Procedures upon failure to pay
§ 14-09-08.2 Support for children after majority – Retroactive application
§ 14-09-08.3 Duration of child support obligations
§ 14-09-08.4 Periodic review of child support orders
§ 14-09-08.5 Notice of review of child support orders
§ 14-09-08.6 Obligor’s duties upon review
§ 14-09-08.7 Notice of review determination
§ 14-09-08.9 Request for review – Notice of right to request review
§ 14-09-08.10 Order
§ 14-09-08.11 Eligible child – Employer to permit enrollment – Employer duties and liabilities – Obligor contest
§ 14-09-08.12 Authorization to insurer
§ 14-09-08.13 Application for service
§ 14-09-08.14 Child support agency to establish criteria
§ 14-09-08.15 Reasonable cost of health insurance
§ 14-09-08.16 Requests for information from income payer
§ 14-09-08.17 Delinquent obligor may not renounce claims
§ 14-09-08.18 Health insurance reimbursements received by but not owed to obligor to be paid over – Finding of contempt – Treatment as delinquent child support
§ 14-09-08.19 Child support order – Required interest statement
§ 14-09-08.20 National medical support notice – Child support agency duties
§ 14-09-08.21 Termination of parental rights – Duty of support
§ 14-09-08.22 Enforcement of health insurance coverage from an obligee
§ 14-09-09 Liability of stepparent for support
§ 14-09-09.3 Child support – Duties and liabilities of income payer under income withholding order
§ 14-09-09.6 Voluntary income withholding for support – Limitations
§ 14-09-09.7 Child support guidelines
§ 14-09-09.10 Definitions
§ 14-09-09.11 Income withholding order
§ 14-09-09.12 Provision of notice of impact of income withholding law to obligors
§ 14-09-09.13 Procedure – Notice to obligor
§ 14-09-09.14 Hearing upon obligor’s request
§ 14-09-09.15 Form – Effect of income withholding order
§ 14-09-09.16 Service of income withholding order on income payer
§ 14-09-09.17 Amendment – Termination of income withholding order
§ 14-09-09.18 Interstate income withholding – Initiation by this state to other state
§ 14-09-09.24 Immediate income withholding
§ 14-09-09.25 Requests by obligee for income withholding – Approval – Procedures and standards
§ 14-09-09.26 State is real party in interest
§ 14-09-09.27 Attorney represents people’s interest in the enforcement of child support obligations
§ 14-09-09.28 Application to existing cases
§ 14-09-09.29 Coordination of income withholding activities and child support case management
§ 14-09-09.30 Monthly amount due
§ 14-09-09.31 Child support exempt from process
§ 14-09-09.32 Agreements to waive child support
§ 14-09-09.33 Offsets of child support
§ 14-09-09.34 Lump sum payments
§ 14-09-09.35 Transfers of funds for payment of child support
§ 14-09-09.36 Fee for child support services
§ 14-09-09.38 Child support obligation of incarcerated parents
§ 14-09-09.39 Income withholding – Information provided to obligor
§ 14-09-10 Reciprocal duty of support for health services – Support of poor
§ 14-09-11 Allowance to parent for support of child
§ 14-09-12 Support – Liability of parent’s estate
§ 14-09-13 Neglect of child – Parent liable to third person
§ 14-09-15 Support of children after majority
§ 14-09-16 Control of property of child
§ 14-09-17 Child’s earnings – Relinquished by parent
§ 14-09-18 Wages of minors
§ 14-09-19 Parental abuse
§ 14-09-20 When parent’s authority ceases
§ 14-09-21 Parent and child not liable for acts of other
§ 14-09-22 Abuse of child – Mandatory sentence – Penalty
§ 14-09-22.1 Neglect of child – Penalty
§ 14-09-23 Full faith and credit for paternity determinations
§ 14-09-24 Interference with visitation – Attorney’s fees – Enforcement remedies and tools
§ 14-09-25 State disbursement unit – Duties – Continuing appropriation
§ 14-09-26 Modification of existing child support orders
§ 14-09-29 Parental rights and responsibilities – Best interests and welfare of child
§ 14-09-30 Parenting plans – Contents
§ 14-09-31 Decisionmaking responsibility
§ 14-09-32 Parental rights and responsibilities
§ 14-09-32.1 Parent’s interest in child’s upbringing
§ 14-09-33 References to child custody and custodial parent
§ 14-09-34 Electronic remittal of funds withheld under an income withholding order
§ 14-09-35 Missing child – Duty to report – Penalty
§ 14-09-36 Death of a child – Duty to report – Penalty

Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 14-09 - Parent and Child

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See North Dakota Code 1-01-18
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Sex: means the biological state of being male or female, based on the individual's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous hormone profiles at birth. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verified: means sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths. See North Dakota Code 1-01-42
  • week: means seven consecutive days and the word "month" a calendar month. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33