Oklahoma § 43-150.1 - Definitions

§ 43-150.1. Definitions

As used in the Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act:

1. "Civilian personnel" means direct-hire, permanent civilian

employees of the Department of Defense;

2. "Close and substantial relationship" means a relationship in

which a bond has been forged between the child and the other person

by regular contact or communication;

3. "Custodial responsibility" refers to legal custody, physical

custody or visitation rights with respect to a child;

4. "Deploying parent" means a legal parent of a minor child or

the legal guardian of a child, who is a member of the United States

Armed Forces, civilian personnel or contractor serving in designated

combat zones or duty stations and who is deployed or has been

notified of an impending deployment;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 43. Marriage and Family

5. "Deployment" means the temporary transfer of a

servicemember, civilian personnel or contractor serving outside

their residential zone, or in designated combat zones, in compliance

with official orders to another location in support of combat,

contingency operation, or natural disaster requiring the use of

orders for a period of more than thirty (30) consecutive days,

during which family members are not authorized to accompany the

servicemember at government expense. Deployment shall include any

period during which a servicemember, civilian personnel or

contractor serving outside their residential zone, or in designated

combat zones, is absent from duty on account of sickness, wounds,

leave or other lawful cause, and shall also include any transfer

pursuant to military orders requiring presence in a foreign country;

6. "Guardian" means a person who has been appointed as a

guardian of a minor or incapacitated adult pursuant to the

requirements of Title 30 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The term shall

include a limited guardian, but shall not include a guardian ad

litem;

7. "Nondeploying parent" means a legal parent or guardian who

is not deployed and who has a child or ward in common with a

deploying parent;

8. "Residential zone" means a seventy-five-mile radius

surrounding a servicemember's permanent place of dwelling located

within the servicemember's state of legal residence or domicile;

9. "Servicemember" means a member of either:

a.

the active or reserve components of the Army, Navy,

Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard,

or

b.

the active or reserve components of the National

Guard; and

10. "Visitation" means the right to take a child for a limited

period of time to a place other than the habitual residence of the

child.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 354, § 4, emerg. eff. May 26, 2011. Amended

by Laws 2017, c. 29, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2021, c. 261, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 27, 2021; Laws 2024, c. 383, § 1, emerg. eff. June

14, 2024.