26B-9-210.  Issuance or modification of an order to collect support for persons not receiving public assistance.
     The office may proceed to issue or modify an order under Section 26B-9-206 and collect under this part even though public assistance is not being provided on behalf of a dependent child if the office provides support collection services in accordance with:

(1)  an application for services provided under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act;

Terms Used In Utah Code 26B-9-210

(a) a son or daughter under the age of 18 years who is not otherwise emancipated, self-supporting, married, or a member of the armed forces of the United States;
(b) a son or daughter over the age of 18 years, while enrolled in high school during the normal and expected year of graduation and not otherwise emancipated, self-supporting, married, or a member of the armed forces of the United States; or
(c) a son or daughter of any age who is incapacitated from earning a living and is without sufficient means. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Office: means the Office of Recovery Services. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
  • Public assistance: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-101. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
  • Support: includes past-due, present, and future obligations established by:
    (a) a tribunal or imposed by law for the financial support, maintenance, medical, or dental care of a dependent child; and
    (b) a tribunal for the financial support of a spouse or former spouse with whom the obligor's dependent child resides if the obligor also owes a child support obligation that is being enforced by the state. See Utah Code 26B-9-201
    (2)  the continued service provisions of Subsection 26B-9-213(5); or

    (3)  the interstate provisions of Section 26B-9-209.

    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 305, 2023 General Session