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• Invalidity of Marriages; Legitimacy of Issue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1
  If solemnized within this state, a marriage that is prohibited by law because of consanguinity or affinity between the parties, because either party had...
• Invalidity of Marriages; Marriage of Person Under Age of Consent, Marriage by Fraud, Lack of Cohabitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.2
  In case of a marriage solemnized when either of the parties was under the age of legal consent, if they shall separate during such...
• Marriage of Doubtful Validity; Procedure to Annul - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.3
  When a marriage is supposed to be void, or the validity thereof is doubted, for any of the causes mentioned in the 2 preceding...
• Marriage of Doubtful Validity; Procedure to Affirm - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.4
  When the validity of any marriage shall be denied or doubted by either of the parties, the other party may file a bill or...
• Repealed. 1951, Act 14, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Complaint for Divorce; Filing; Grounds; Answer; Judgment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.6
  (1) A complaint for divorce may be filed in the circuit court upon the allegation that there has been a breakdown of the marriage...
• Action for Separate Maintenance; Filing; Grounds; Answer; Effect of Admission; Counterclaim for Divorce; Judgment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.7
  (1) An action for separate maintenance may be filed in the circuit court in the same manner and on the same grounds as an...
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Judgment of Divorce; Residency Requirement; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.9
  (1) A judgment of divorce shall not be granted by a court in this state in an action for divorce unless the complainant or...
• Decree of Divorce; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.9a
  No decree of divorce shall be granted in any case except when 1 of the following facts exists: (a) The defendant is domiciled in...
• Repealed. 1958, Act 227, Imd. Eff. May 26, 1958. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Divorce; Cause Occurring Out of State, Residence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.9e
  Whenever the cause for divorce charged in the bill or petition has occurred out of this state, no decree of divorce shall be granted...
• Divorce; Taking of Testimony; Minor Children; Perpetuating Testimony; Nonresident Defendant, Residence of Plaintiff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.9f
  No proofs or testimony shall be taken in any case for divorce until the expiration of 60 days from the time of filing the...
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Action for Divorce; Answer Without Oath - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.11
  An action for a divorce may be brought by a wife or a husband, and in all cases the respondent may answer the bill...
• Suit; Conduct, Power of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.12
  Suits to annul or affirm a marriage, or for a divorce, shall be conducted in the same manner as other suits in courts of...
• Alimony; Costs; Termination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.13
  (1) In every action brought, either for a divorce or for a separation, the court may require either party to pay alimony for the...
• Action for Annulment, Divorce, or Separate Maintenance; Entering Personal Protection Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.14
  (1) On the motion of a party at any time after the filing of a complaint in an action to annul a marriage or...
• Care, Custody, and Support of Minor Children During Pendency of Action; Support Order; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.15
  (1) After the filing of a complaint in an action to annul a marriage or for a divorce or separate maintenance, on the motion...
• Care, Custody, and Support of Minor Child After Annulment or Judgment of Divorce or Separate Maintenance; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.16
  (1) Upon annulling a marriage or entering a judgment of divorce or separate maintenance, the court may enter the orders it considers just and...
• Repealed. 2001, Act 107, Eff. Sept. 30, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Revision and Alteration of Judgment Concerning Care, Custody, Maintenance, and Support of Children; Enforceability of Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.17
  (1) After entry of a judgment concerning annulment, divorce, or separate maintenance and on the petition of either parent, the court may revise and...
• Jurisdiction of Court; Application for Modification of Judgment or Order; Waiver of Contempt - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.17a
  (1) The court has jurisdiction to make an order or judgment relative to the minor children of the parties as authorized in this chapter...
• Rights or Contingent Rights in and to Vested or Unvested Benefits or Accumulated Contributions as Part of Marital Estate Subject to Award by Court; Amendment of Court Order to Satisfy Requirements of Eligible Domestic Relations Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.18
  (1) Any rights in and to vested pension, annuity, or retirement benefits, or accumulated contributions in any pension, annuity, or retirement system, payable to...
• Restoration of Real and Personal Estate to Parties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.19
  Upon the annulment of a marriage, a divorce from the bonds of matrimony or a judgment of separate maintenance, the court may make a...
• Real and Personal Property or Money in Lieu Thereof; Delivery or Payment to Trustee; Investment; Application of Income - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.20
  Upon every divorce, and upon every divorce from bed and board for any cause, if any real and personal estate of either party, or...
• Payment of Principal Sum on Court Order; Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.21
  Such trustees shall also pay over the principal sum to either party and children of the marriage, when ordered by the court, in such...
• Disclosure of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.22
  Whenever the court shall think proper to award to either party any of the real and personal estate of either party, or any money...
• Judgment of Divorce or Separate Maintenance; Further Award of Real and Personal Estate; Transmittal of Payments to Department of Human Services; Service Fee; Failure or Refusal to Pay Service Fee; Contempt; "state Disbursement Unit" or "sdu" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.23
  (1) Upon entry of a judgment of divorce or separate maintenance, if the estate and effects awarded to either party are insufficient for the...
• Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.24
  The SDU is responsible for the centralized receipt and disbursement of support. An office of the friend of the court may continue to receive...
• Alimony or Allowance for Support and Education of Children as Lien; Default; Powers of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.27
  If alimony or an allowance for the support and education of the children is awarded to either party, the amount of the alimony or...
• Judgment for Alimony or Allowance or for Appointment of Trustees; Revision or Alteration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.28
  On petition of either party, after a judgment for alimony or other allowance for either party or a child, or after a judgment for...
• Presumption of Legitimacy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.29
  The legitimacy of all children begotten before the commencement of any action under this act shall be presumed until the contrary be shown. History:...
• Legitimacy of Issue; Dissolution of Marriage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.30
  Upon the dissolution of a marriage because of a party's non-age at the time of the marriage, or because a party was otherwise not...
• Legitimacy of Issue; Dissolution of Bigamous Marriage Entered Into in Good Faith - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.31
  When a marriage is dissolved on account of a prior marriage of either party, and it shall appear that the second marriage was contracted...
• Action to Annul Marriage of Minor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.34
  An action to annul a marriage on the ground that 1 of the parties was under the age of legal consent, as provided in...
• Marriage Annulment; Action by Party's Next Friend - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.35
  If, at the time of a marriage, a party to the marriage was not capable in law of contracting, an individual admitted by the...
• Marriage Annulment; Action by Party to Marriage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.36
  A party to a marriage who, at the time of the marriage, was not capable in law of contracting and who later becomes capable...
• Marriage Annulment; Ground of Force or Fraud; Effect of Voluntary Cohabitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.37
  No marriage shall be annulled on the ground of force or fraud, if it shall appear that, at any time before the commencement of...
• Marriage Annulment; Ground of Force or Fraud; Custody and Maintenance of Issue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.38
  If there shall be any issue of a marriage, annulled on the ground of force or fraud, the court shall decree their custody to...
• Marriage Annulment; Ground of Physical Incapacity; Party to Maintain; Time Limitation of Suit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.39
  A suit to annul a marriage, on the ground of the physical incapacity of 1 of the parties, shall only be maintained by the...
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Divorce From Bed and Board; Decree; Limited Time, Revocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.43
  When a decree of divorce from bed and board forever, or for a limited time, shall have been pronounced, it may be revoked at...
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Children; Enumeration in Complaint; Notice to Prosecutor of Friend of Court; Decree Opposition, Interest of Prosecutor or Partners in Case - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.45
  Every bill of complaint filed shall set forth the names and ages of all children of the marriage, and if there are children under...
• Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Judgment of Divorce or Separate Maintenance; Provision in Lieu of Dower; Determining Rights of Wife or Husband in and to Policy of Life Insurance, Endowment, or Annuity; Discharge of Liability on Policy; Determination of Rights; Assignment of Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.101
  (1) When any judgment of divorce or judgment of separate maintenance is granted in any of the courts of this state, the court granting...
• Realty Owned Jointly or by Entireties; Effect of Divorce Without Determination of Ownership in Decree - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.102
  Every husband and wife owning real estate as joint tenants or as tenants by entireties shall, upon being divorced, become tenants in common of...
• Realty Owned Jointly or by Entireties; Bill of Complaint, Disposal, Sale Order, Partition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.103
  The bill of complaint or amendment thereto, or the answer or cross bill or amendment thereto, filed in any divorce proceeding may ask that...
• Divorce Decree; Certified Copy; Recording - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.104
  A certified copy of any decree granted in a suit for divorce may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of...
• Foreign Divorce Decree as Basis of Action At Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.121
  In all cases where a decree for alimony has been rendered in another state in a case where the party against whom the decree...
• Stay of Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.122
  If the defendant in this state shows that he has made proper application in the court of the other state for a reduction or...
• Judgment; Stay, Amendment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.123
  All judgments in such cases shall be stayed 60 days, and if during said term the defendant in this state presents satisfactory evidence of...
• Alimony or Support and Maintenance Order in Suit for Divorce or Separate Maintenance; Petition; Punishment for Neglect or Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.151
  In a suit for divorce or separate maintenance, if an order or decree for payment of temporary or permanent alimony, or of support and...
• Payments in Default; Motion; Attachment; "state Disbursement Unit" or "sdu" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.152
  (1) When a decree or order described in section 1 orders payments to be made to the clerk of the court, the friend of...
• Order for Payment; Demand or Notice Not Necessity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.153
  No demand or notice of making the order for such payment shall be necessary in the cases enumerated in section 1. History: 1913, Act...
• Attachment; Arrest, Custody of Party - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.154
  The attachment shall be executed by the sheriff of the county, or by any officer authorized to make such arrest, who shall arrest the...
• Attachment; Discharge by Execution of Bond, Court Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.155
  The party arrested on the attachment shall be discharged therefrom upon executing and delivering to the clerk of the court issuing such attachment a...
• Transition to Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.156
  The department, the SDU, and each office of the friend of the court shall cooperate in the transition to the centralized receipt and disbursement...
• Repealed - Failure to Pay Support and Maintenance (552.201 - 552.203) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Friend of Court in Divorce Cases (552.251 - 552.255) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Property and Maintenance for Wives (552.301 - 552.302) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Property and Maintenance for Wives (552.333 - 552.333) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Divorced Woman; Change of Name - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.391
  The circuit courts of this state, whenever a decree of divorce is granted, may, at the instance of the woman, whether complainant or defendant,...
• Property Owned by Spouse; Award to Party Contributing to Acquisition, Improvement, or Accumulation Thereof; Effect of Decree - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.401
  The circuit court of this state may include in any decree of divorce or of separate maintenance entered in the circuit court appropriate provisions...
• Certified Copy of Decree; Recording or Filing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.402
  A certified copy of any such decree may be recorded or filed in the office of the register of deeds of any county wherein...
• Proceedings for Support of Custodial Parent and Children; Complaint; Service; Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.451
  A married parent who has a minor child or children living with him or her and who is living separate and away from his...
• Proceedings for Support of Children; Support Order; Burden of Proof; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.451a
  A custodial parent or guardian of a minor child or children or a child or children who have reached 18 years of age may...
• Proceedings for Support of Custodial Parent and Children Being Supported by Public Assistance; Burden of Proof - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.451b
  The director of social services or his or her designated representative or the director of the county department of social services of the county...
• Repealed. 2001, Act 111, Eff. Sept. 30, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Hearing; Order; Contents; Burden of Proving Lack of Ability to Provide Support; Amount; Medical and Other Expenses; Enforcement of Order; Custody and Parenting Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.452
  (1) Upon the hearing of the complaint, in the manner of a motion, the court may enter an order as it determines proper for...
• Transmitting Order for Support to Friend of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.453
  Upon the entry of any order for support under this act, a copy of the order shall be transmitted to the friend of the...
• Prosecuting Attorney as Attorney for Petitioner; Utilization of Child Support Formula as Guideline; Transmittal of Payments to Family Independence Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.454
  (1) If the county family independence agency where the custodial parent or guardian of the minor child or children or the child or children...
• Modification of Order; Application and Notice; Order Void Upon Entry of Judgment of Divorce or Separate Maintenance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.455
  An order entered under section 2 may be modified by the court upon proper application to the court and due notice to the opposite...
• Warrant for Criminal Nonsupport; Testimony - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.456
  A warrant for criminal nonsupport shall not issue or be enforced against any parent who is a party to the proceedings provided for in...
• Repealed. 2009, Act 236, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Fees and Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.458
  No filing, order or stenographer's fees shall be required for an action or proceedings under this act, but the court may assess any such...
• Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.458a
  The SDU is responsible for the centralized receipt and disbursement of support. An office of the friend of the court may continue to receive...
• Short Title; "state Disbursement Unit" or "sdu" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.459
  (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as "the family support act". (2) As used in this act, "state disbursement unit"...
• Short Title; Purposes and Construction of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.501
  (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "friend of the court act". (2) The purposes of this act are...
• Definitions; a to I - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.502
  As used in this act: (a) "Alternative dispute resolution" means a process established under section 13 by which the parties are assisted in voluntarily...
• Definitions; M to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.502a
  As used in this act: (a) "Medical assistance" means medical assistance as established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396...
• Office of the Friend of the Court; Creation in Judicial Circuit; Exception; Separate Office in County; Vacancy; Merger; Head of Office as Friend of the Court; Friend of the Court as Employee of Circuit Court; Performance of Duties; Office Procedures; Availability of Services to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.503
  (1) There is created in each judicial circuit of this state an office of the friend of the court, except as provided in subsection...
• Citizen Friend of the Court Advisory Committee; Establishment; Composition; Appointment; Vacancy; Terms; Election of Chairperson and Vice - Chairperson; Court Administrative Office Guidelines; Term Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.504
  (1) Each county may establish a citizen friend of the court advisory committee composed of the following members, each of whom is a resident...
• Citizen Advisory Committee; Scope; Duties; Subcommittees; Meetings Open to the Public; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.504a
  (1) A citizen advisory committee is advisory only. Once established, the citizen advisory committee shall do all of the following: (a) Meet not less...
• Information and Records to Be Provided to Citizen Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.504b
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), and (4), and under the chief judge's supervision, the office shall provide the citizen advisory committee...
• Information and Records as Confidential; Disclosure; Penalty; Grounds for Dismissal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.504c
  (1) A citizen advisory committee, its members, and its staff shall consider as confidential a record or other information to which they have access...
• Duties of Friend of the Court; Failure of Party to Attend Scheduled Meeting; Charging Parties for Investigation, Report and Recommendations; Waiver or Suspension of Fees; Disposition of Money Collected - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.505
  (1) Each office of the friend of the court has the following duties: (a) To inform each party to a domestic relations matter that,...
• Open Friend of the Court Case; Closure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.505a
  (1) Except as required by this section, an office of the friend of the court shall open and maintain a friend of the court...
• Referee; Designation by Chief Judge; Powers; Transcript of Hearing; Cost; De Novo Court Hearing; Request; Interim Order; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.507
  (1) The chief judge may designate a referee as provided by the Michigan court rules. (2) A referee may do all of the following:...
• Making Report, Recommendation, and Supporting Documents Available to Attorneys and Parties; Informing Parties in Child Custody Dispute or Guardian Concerning Preference Expressed by Child; Availability of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.507a
  (1) A copy of each report, recommendation, and any supporting documents or a summary of supporting documents prepared or used by the friend of...
• Expediting Relief; Methods - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.508
  The circuit court shall utilize referees and take other appropriate action to expedite obtaining relief in the form of child or spousal support in...
• Duties of Office Regarding Support Payments; Transition to State Disbursement Unit; Providing Statement of Account to Parties; Initiating and Carrying Out Proceedings to Enforce Order Entered in Domestic Relations Matter; Enforcement Orders Entered in Other State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.509
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3), after a support order is entered in a friend of the court case, the...
• Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.509a
  The SDU is responsible for the centralized receipt and disbursement of support and fees. An office of the friend of the court may continue...
• Initiating Enforcement of Support Order and Custody or Parenting Time Order; Procedure; Arrearage; Amnesty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.511
  (1) Except as provided in this section, each office shall initiate 1 or more support enforcement measures under the support and parenting time enforcement...
• Payment of Health Care Expense; Complaint; Sending Copy of Complaint and Notice to Parent; Objection; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.511a
  (1) A complaint seeking enforcement for payment of a health care expense must include information showing that all of the following conditions have been...
• Custody or Parenting Time Order Violations; Complaint; Sending Copy of Complaint to Individual Accused of Interfering; Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.511b
  (1) An office shall initiate enforcement under the support and parenting time enforcement act if the office receives a written complaint that states specific...
• Providing Information to Consumer Reporting Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.512
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, in a format acceptable to the friend of the court, the family independence agency, and the...
• Alternative Dispute Resolution; Approval of Plan; Agreement; Consent Order; Confidentiality of Communications; Minimum Qualifications of Mediator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.513
  (1) In a friend of the court case, the office shall provide, either directly or by contract, alternative dispute resolution to assist the parties...
• Certain Actions by Employee of Office Providing Alternative Dispute Resolution Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.515
  An employee of the office who provides alternative dispute resolution in a friend of the court case involving a particular party shall not perform...
• Review of Child Support Order After Final Judgment; Modification Order; Calculations; Petition for Modification; Scheduling of Hearing; Petition to Require Dependent Health Care Coverage; Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.517
  (1) After a final judgment containing a child support order has been entered in a friend of the court case, the office shall use...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 571, Imd. Eff. Oct. 3, 2002. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Review of Order; Notice of Right to Request; Notice of Review; Calculation of Support Amount; Objection; Joint Meeting Expediting Resolution of Support Issues; Provisions; Modification; Frequency of Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.517b
  (1) Child support orders entered after June 30, 2005 shall be modified according to this section. For each support order entered before June 30,...
• Review of Support Order in Another State; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.517c
  (1) If Michigan is the initiating state in an interstate friend of the court case involving child support, the office shall determine whether a...
• Motion for Modification of Parenting Time Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.517d
  (1) After a final judgment containing a parenting time order is entered in a domestic relations matter for which there is an open friend...
• Arrearage Payment Schedules; Administrative Adjustment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.517e
  The office shall utilize guidelines provided in the child support formula developed by the state friend of the court bureau under section 19 to...
• Information From Employer or Former Employer Relative to Parent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.518
  (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), upon the request of the office of the friend of the court, any employer or former employer...
• State Friend of the Court Bureau; Creation; Supervision and Direction; Main Office; Duties; State Advisory Committee; Report or Recommendation; Reimbursement for Expenses; Meetings; Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.519
  (1) The state friend of the court bureau is created within the state court administrative office, under the supervision and direction of the supreme...
• Information Requested by Department of Human Services - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.520
  (1) If the department of human services requests information from an office of the friend of the court, that office may provide the information...
• Person Appointed as Friend of the Court Under Former Act; Continuation; Transfer of Files, Records, Funds, and Pending Cases of Office Under Former Act; Employees of Friend of the Court Appointed Under Former Act to Become Employees of Corresponding Office; Employees of State Judicial Council Serving in Third Judicial Circuit to Continue in Present Positions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.521
  (1) Each person appointed as friend of the court under former Act No. 412 of the Public Acts of 1919 who is serving in...
• Appointment of Attorney to Assist Friend of the Court; Compensation; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.522
  If the friend of the court serving a judicial circuit is not an attorney who is a member of the state bar of Michigan...
• Vacancy; Appointment of Person to Position of Friend of the Court or Interim Friend of the Court; Experience or Education - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.523
  (1) If the position of friend of the court becomes vacant for any reason, the chief judge shall appoint a person to the position...
• Annual Review of Performance Record of Friend of the Court; Public Notice and Comments; Written Evaluation; Written Response; Copies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.524
  (1) The chief judge annually shall review the performance record of each friend of the court serving that circuit to determine whether the friend...
• Removal of Friend of the Court; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.525
  The chief judge may remove the friend of the court. A removal under this section is not effective until approved by a majority of...
• Grievance Procedure; Records; Public Access to Report of Grievances; Powers and Duties of Citizen Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.526
  (1) A party to a friend of the court case who has a grievance concerning office operations or employees shall utilize the following grievance...
• Compensation and Expenses of Friend of the Court and Employees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.527
  The compensation and expenses of the friend of the court for each judicial circuit and of the employees of the office and all operating...
• Compilation of Data - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.528
  Each office of the friend of the court shall compile data as required by the state court administrative office, under the supervision and direction...
• Repealed. 1996, Act 366, Eff. Jan. 1, 1997. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repeal of Mcl 552.251 to 552.255 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.533
  Act No. 412 of the Public Acts of 1919, as amended, being sections 552.251 to 552.255 of the Compiled Laws of 1970, is repealed.
• Conditional Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.534
  This act shall not take effect unless the following House Bills of the 81st Legislature are enacted into law: (a) House Bill No. 4871....
• Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.535
  Except as provided in section 34, this act shall take effect July 1, 1983.
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.601
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "support and parenting time enforcement act". History: 1982, Act 295, Eff. July 1,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.602
  As used in this act: (a) "Account" means any of the following: (i) A demand deposit account. (ii) A draft account. (iii) A checking...
• Support Order; Enforcement; Information to Be Included; Notice of New Information; Service of Notices or Other Papers; Accrued Interest Prohibited; Failure to Comply With Requirements; Fee; Admission Into Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.603
  (1) A support order issued by a court of this state shall be enforced as provided in this act. (2) Except as otherwise provided...
• Failure to Pay Support; Surcharge; Calculation; Assessment; Collection; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.603a
  (1) Subject to subsection (6), for a friend of the court case, if the court determines that the payer has failed to pay support...
• Retroactive Correction of Support Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.603b
  If an individual who is required by the court to report his or her income to the court or the office of the friend...
• Repayment Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.603d
  (1) A party or the friend of the court may file a motion with the court for a repayment plan order that provides, subject...
• Support Order to Provide for Order of Income Withholding; Order of Income Withholding by Operation of Law; Notice; Effective Date of Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.604
  (1) After July 1, 1983, each support order entered or modified by the circuit court shall provide for an order of income withholding. (2)...
• Child Support Order; Deviation From Formula; Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605
  (1) If a court orders the payment of child support under this or another act of the state, this section applies to that order....
• Information to Be Provided to Office of the Friend of the Court; Health Care Coverage; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605a
  (1) For a friend of the court case, a child support order entered or modified by the court shall provide that each party shall...
• Child Support After 18 Years of Age - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605b
  (1) A court that orders child support may order support for a child after the child reaches 18 years of age as provided in...
• Support Order; Monthly Amounts; Conversion; Proration; Applicability of Excess Payment Against Arrearage; Refund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605c
  (1) All support orders shall be stated in monthly amounts payable on the first of each month in advance. A support obligation not paid...
• Support Order; Provisions; Assignment, Redirection, or Abatement of Support Payment; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605d
  (1) On and after June 1, 2003, each support order the court enters or modifies shall include substantially the following provisions: (a) If a...
• Payment Plan for Arrearages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.605e
  (1) A payer who has an arrearage under a support order may file a motion with the circuit court for a payment plan to...
• Support Order Entered Under Interstate Income Withholding Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.606
  If a support order is entered under section 6 of the interstate income withholding act, sections 7 to 23 shall apply in the same...
• Notice of Arrearage to Payer; Contents; Sending Copy of Notice to Recipient; Request for Hearing; Time of Hearing; De Novo Hearing; Consolidation of Hearings; Completion of Proceedings; Review by Friend of the Court Office - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.607
  (1) For a friend of the court case, if income withholding is not immediately effective and the arrearage under a support order reaches the...
• Documentary Evidence of Income Withheld - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.607a
  The friend of the court shall not consider a payer to have an arrearage if the payer produces documentary evidence that money has been...
• Limitation on Amount of Income Withheld - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.608
  The total amount of income withheld under this act under all orders to withhold income for current support, past due support, fees, and health...
• Order of Income Withholding; Service; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.609
  (1) A notice of income withholding entered under this act shall be served on sources of income as provided in section 11. A labor...
• Payer to Give Friend of Court Name and Address of Employer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.610
  For a friend of the court case, the payer shall give to the office of the friend of the court at the time the...
• Order of Income Withholding; Duration; Priority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.611
  An order of income withholding entered under this act is binding upon a source of income 7 days after service upon that source of...
• More Than 1 Order of Income Withholding Against Payer or Parent; Compliance With Source of Income; Liability; Identification of Withholding; Combining Amounts in Single Payment; Identifying Portion of Single Payment Attributable to Each Payer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.611a
  (1) If there is more than 1 order to withhold income for support, fees, or health care coverage premiums against a payer or parent...
• Compliance With Order as Discharge of Liability to Payer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.612
  Compliance by the source of income with a notice of income withholding operates as a discharge of the source's liability to the payer as...
• Failure to Comply With Order; Contempt; Finding; Initiation of Proceedings; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.613
  The court may find a source of income in contempt, require the source of income to pay an amount according to section 11a(2) if...
• Termination or Interruption of Payer's Income; Notice; Service on New Employer or Other Source of Income - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.614
  (1) A source of income that has been served with a notice of income withholding or with an order or notice of an order...
• Notice of Change in Circumstances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.615
  The payer and any recipient of support shall immediately give to the office of the friend of the court notice of any change in...
• Military Service Adjustment; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.615a
  (1) If a payer is called to emergency military service, that payer may request a military service adjustment on his or her support obligation...
• Notice of Support Modification; Changing Amount Assigned or Withheld - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.617
  For a friend of the court case, if the court orders a modification in support and an order of income withholding has been entered...
• Modifying Support Order to Exclude Support for Child of Whom Payer Awarded Sole Custody; Suspension or Termination of Order of Income Withholding; Circumstances Prohibiting Written Agreement; Effectiveness of Order of Income Withholding; Refund of Money Improperly Withheld - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.619
  (1) If the court awards to the payer sole custody of a child for whom the payer has been previously ordered to pay support...
• Repealed. 1990, Act 296, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1990. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Using Order of Income Withholding as Basis for Refusing to Employ, Discharging, Disciplining, or Penalizing Payer Prohibited; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Restitution; Use of Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License as Basis; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.623
  (1) A source of income shall not use a notice of income withholding as a basis for refusing to employ, discharging, taking disciplinary action...
• Using Order of Income Withholding as Basis for Refusing to Employ, Discharging, Disciplining, or Penalizing Payer Prohibited; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Restitution; Use of Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License as Basis; Exception; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.623.amended
  (1) A source of income shall not use a notice of income withholding as a basis for refusing to employ, discharging, taking disciplinary action...
• Offset Proceedings Against Delinquent Payer's Tax Refunds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.624
  For a friend of the court case, if the case has not been designated for offset proceedings by the office of child support and...
• Proceedings to Set Aside Transfer of Title or Ownership of Property Without Fair Consideration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.624a
  For a friend of the court case, if a support arrearage has accrued and there is reason to believe the payer transferred title or...
• Notification to Child Support Lien Network and Additional Clearinghouses of Payer With Support Arrearage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.624b
  The title IV-D agency shall notify the child support lien network, and may notify 1 or more additional national child support information clearinghouses, of...
• Enforcement of Support Orders; Providing Bond, Security, or Other Guarantee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625
  In addition to providing remedies or imposing penalties otherwise available under this act or other law for the enforcement of support orders, the court,...
• Lien; Creation; Effect; Full Faith and Credit to Liens Created in Other States; Priority; Notice; Exceptions to Creation of Lien; Effect of Lien on Itemized Amount in Redemption Order; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625a
  (1) The amount of past due support that accrues under a judgment as provided in section 3 or under the law of another state...
• Remedy as Cumulative; Lien; Perfection; Notice; Review Procedures; Enforcement; Termination; Disclosure of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625b
  (1) A remedy provided by this section is cumulative and does not affect the availability of another remedy under this act or other law....
• Remedy as Cumulative; Arrearage Under Payer's Support Order; Payer's Financial Assets Held by Financial Institution; Notice of Lien and Levy; Form; Notice of Withdrawal; Release of Assets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625c
  (1) A remedy provided by this section is cumulative and does not affect the availability of another remedy under this act or other law....
• Obligation or Liability of Financial Institution, Insurer, or Carrier; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625d
  (1) A financial institution, insurer, or carrier incurs no obligation or liability to a depositor, account holder, or other person arising from the furnishing...
• Freeze of Payer's Financial Assets; Execution; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625e
  (1) When a financial institution, insurer, or carrier receives a notice of levy under section 25c on a payer's financial assets held by the...
• Levy on Financial Assets; Challenge; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625f
  (1) A payer whose financial assets are, or money to be paid or compensation is, levied on under section 25c or another person with...
• Forwarding Money by Financial Institution, Insurer, or Carrier - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625g
  (1) A financial institution, insurer, or carrier that receives a notice of levy under section 25c shall forward money in the amount of past...
• Circuit Court Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625h
  (1) If an action is filed in circuit court within the time limit prescribed in section 25f, the circuit court shall review the matter...
• Return of Forwarded Money to Payer; Reimbursement of Fee, Cost, or Penalty; Interest; Allocations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.625i
  (1) If, after a financial institution forwards money to the state disbursement unit, all of the forwarded money is returned to the payer due...
• Notice of Income Withholding; Failure of Parent to Obtain or Maintain Health Care Coverage for Child; Duties of Friend of the Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.626
  (1) For a friend of the court case, within 2 business days after a new hire report is entered into the state directory of...
• Eligibility of Parent for Health Care Coverage Through Employer; Duties of Employer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.626a
  (1) If a parent is eligible for health care coverage through an employer doing business in the state, within 20 business days after the...
• Order or Notice for Dependent Health Care Coverage; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.626b
  (1) An order or notice for dependent health care coverage entered under this act shall include the information required in a qualified medical child...
• Order for Health Care Coverage; Modification Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.626c
  If the court modifies an order for health care coverage that may affect the provision of dependent health care coverage, the office of the...
• Notice to Department of Social Services Identifying Health Care Coverage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.626d
  The office of the friend of the court shall notify the state department of social services if the office identifies health care coverage that...
• Other Enforcement Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.627
  (1) Under the Michigan court rules, the circuit court may take other enforcement action under applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the following:...
• Order to Suspend Payer's Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License; Notice to Payer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.628
  (1) For a friend of the court case, a payer's occupational license, driver's license, or recreational or sporting license, or any combination of the...
• Suspension Hearing; Consolidation With Modification Hearing; Order to Pay Arrearage in Installments; Suspension Order; Failure of Payer to Comply With Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.629
  (1) Within 21 days after the date on which a notice described in section 28 is mailed to a payer, the payer may request...
• Suspension of Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License by Licensing Agency; Sending Copy of Order; Schedule for Payment of Arrearage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.630
  (1) If the court orders a suspension of an occupational license, driver's license, or recreational or sporting license, or any combination of the licenses,...
• Failure or Refusal to Obey and Perform Support Order; Civil Contempt Proceeding; Failure to Appear; Bench Warrant; Bond or Cash Deposit; Custody; Payment and Disposition of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.631
  (1) If a person is ordered to pay support under a support order and fails or refuses to obey and perform the order, and...
• Payer Arrested Under Bench Warrant; Cash Performance Bond; Hearing on Order to Show Cause; Form of Bond Receipt; Failure to Appear; Transmission and Deposit of Bond; Setting Aside Contempt Finding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.632
  (1) If a bench warrant was issued and the payer is arrested in the county that issued the warrant or another county in this...
• Finding Payer in Contempt; Presumption; Proof of Currently Available Resources; Order; Noncompliance With Arrearage Payment Schedule; Suspension of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.633
  (1) The court may find a payer in contempt if the court finds that the payer is in arrears and if the court is...
• Finding Payer in Contempt; Order; Release of Payer From County Jail; Noncompliance With Arrearage Payment Schedule; Suspension of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.635
  (1) The court may find a payer in contempt if the court finds that the payer is in arrears and 1 of the following...
• Order of Commitment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.637
  (1) An order of commitment under section 33 or 35 shall be entered only if other remedies appear unlikely to correct the payer's failure...
• Committing Payer to County Jail or Alternative to Jail; Violating Conditions of Court; Failure to Return to Place of Confinement as Escape From Custody; Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.639
  (1) If a payer is committed to jail or an alternative to jail under section 33(1)(b) or 35(2)(a) and violates the conditions prescribed by...
• Complaint Alleging Custody or Parenting Time Order Violation; Duties of Friend of Court; Declining to Respond to Violation; Circumstances; Compliance With Mcl 552.519 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.641
  (1) For a friend of the court case, a friend of the court shall do 1 or more of the following in response to...
• Makeup Parenting Time Policy; Establishment; Approval; Provisions of Policy; Notice; Response; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.642
  (1) Each circuit shall establish a makeup parenting time policy under which a parent who has been wrongfully denied parenting time is able to...
• Joint Meeting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.642a
  (1) A joint meeting scheduled by the office of the friend of the court under section 41 of this act or section 17 of...
• Civil Contempt Proceeding to Resolve Dispute Concerning Parenting Time; Commencement by Office of Friend of Court; Notice; Finding of Violation; Powers of Court; "Good Cause" Defined; Duration of Commitment; Release; Bench Warrant; Sanction for Bad Faith; Judgment; Payment of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.644
  (1) If the office of the friend of the court determines that a procedure for resolving a parenting time dispute authorized under section 41...
• Finding of Contempt for Noncompliance With Makeup and Ongoing Parenting Time Schedule; Suspension of License; Agreement; Hearing on Modification of Parenting Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.645
  (1) If the court enters an order under section 44(2)(g) and the parent fails to comply with the makeup and ongoing parenting time schedule,...
• Custodial Parent Committed to Jail or Alternative to Jail Under Mcl 552.644(2)(f); Violation of Conditions of Court; Commitment to County Jail Without Privilege; Failure to Return to Place of Confinement as Escape From Custody; Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.646
  (1) If a custodial parent is committed to jail or an alternative to jail under section 44(2)(f) and violates the conditions ordered by the...
• Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.648
  The state disbursement unit is responsible for the centralized receipt and disbursement of support. An office of the friend of the court may continue...
• Conditional Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.649
  This act shall not take effect unless the following bills of the 81st Legislature are enacted into law: (a) House Bill No. 4870. (b)...
• Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.650
  Except as provided in section 49, this act shall take effect July 1, 1983.
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.671
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "interstate income withholding act".
• Purpose of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.672
  The purpose of this act is to enhance the enforcement of support obligations by providing a quick and effective procedure for the withholding of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.673
  As used in this act: (a) "Agency" means the court or entity in another jurisdiction with functions similar to those assigned in this act...
• Remedy Cumulative; Delay or Denial of Relief Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.674
  The remedy provided in this act is in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other remedy otherwise available to enforce a support...
• Requesting Agency of Another Jurisdiction to Enter Order for Purpose of Obtaining Income Withholding; Documentation; Copy of Subsequent Modifications of Support Order; Contesting Income Withholding; Notice; Monitoring Payments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.675
  On behalf of a client for whom the office of the friend of the court is already providing services, or on application of a...
• Office of Child Support to Forward Documentation to Office of Friend of Court; Filing Documents With Clerk of Court; Acceptance of Documents as Entry of Support Order; Documentation Required for Entry of Support Order of Another Jurisdiction; Remedying Defect in Documentation; Notice of Necessary Additions or Corrections; Effect of Meeting Substantive Requirement; Enforcement of Support Order; Jurisdiction Limited to Income Withholding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.676
  (1) Upon receiving a support order of another jurisdiction with the documentation specified in subsection (2) from an agency, an obligee, an obligor, or...
• Filing Fee or Other Costs Not Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.676a
  A court shall not require payment of either a filing fee or other costs from the obligee.
• Notice of Proposed Income Withholding; Contents; Request for Hearing; Notice of Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.677
  (1) On the date a support order is entered under section 6, the office of the friend of the court shall send to the...
• Prima Facie Proof; Defenses of Obligor; Burden; Duties of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.678
  (1) At any hearing contesting proposed income withholding based on a support order entered under section 6, the support order, accompanying sworn or certified...
• Order of Income Withholding; Manner of Taking Effect; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.679
  If the obligor does not request a hearing in the time provided, or if a hearing is held and it is determined that the...
• Payments Made and Received Pursuant to Order of Income Withholding; Validity of Support Order; More Than 1 Support Order in Effect for Support of 1 Person by Same Obligor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.680
  (1) An order of income withholding under this act shall direct payment to be made to the office of the friend of the court...
• Transition to Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.680a
  The department, the SDU, and each office of the friend of the court shall cooperate in the transition to the centralized receipt and disbursement...
• Obligor Obtaining Employment or Having New or Additional Source of Income in Another State; Duty of Office of Friend of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.681
  If the office of the friend of the court determines that the obligor has obtained employment in another state or has a new or...
• Voluntary Income Withholding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.682
  A person who is the obligor on a support order of another jurisdiction may obtain voluntary income withholding by filing with the office of...
• Applicable Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.683
  (1) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (2), the law of this state shall apply in all actions and proceedings concerning the entry, enforcement,...
• Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.684
  This act shall take effect on March 1, 1986.
• Conditional Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.685
  This act shall not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 83rd Legislature are enacted into law: (a) Senate Bill No....
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1101
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "uniform interstate family support act".
• Definitions; C to H - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1102
  As used in this act: (a) "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to...
• Definitions; I to O - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1103
  As used in this act: (a) "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to...
• Definitions; R to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1104
  As used in this act: (a) "Register" means to file a support order or judgment determining parentage in the circuit court. (b) "Registering tribunal"...
• Remedies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1105
  A remedy provided by this act is cumulative and does not affect the availability of a remedy under other law.
• Applicability and Construction of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1107
  This act shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this...
• Circuit Court as Tribunal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1108
  The circuit court is the tribunal for this state.
• Tribunal; Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1201
  In a proceeding to establish, enforce, or modify a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction...
• Receipt of Evidence and Discovery From Another State; Applicability of Procedural and Substantive Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1203
  A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident under section 201 may apply section 328 to receive evidence from another state...
• State Tribunal as Initiating and Responding Tribunal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1221
  Under this act, this state's tribunal may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to another state and as a responding tribunal for...
• Establishment of Support Order; Filing Petition or Pleading; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1223
  (1) This state's tribunal may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if a petition or comparable pleading is filed in this state after...
• Issuance of Support Order; Continuing Exclusive Jurisdiction; Modification; Recognition of Jurisdiction of Another State; Temporary Ex Parte Order; Duration of Jurisdiction; Modification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1224
  (1) A tribunal of this state that issues a support order consistent with this state's law has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a child support...
• State Tribunal Serving as Initiating or Responding Tribunal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1225
  (1) This state's tribunal may serve as an initiating tribunal to request another state's tribunal to enforce or modify a support order issued in...
• Issuance of 1 or More Child Support Orders; Determining Recognition of Orders for Purposes of Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1231
  (1) If a proceeding is brought under this act and only 1 tribunal has issued a child support order, the order of that tribunal...
• Enforcement of Multiple Registrations or Petitions for Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1233
  In responding to multiple registrations or petitions for enforcement of 2 or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard...
• Crediting Money Collected Under Another State's Support Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1235
  Money collected and credited for a particular period under a support order issued by another state's tribunal shall be credited against the amount that...
• Applicability of Act to Proceedings; Commencement of Proceeding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1301
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, this article applies to all proceedings under this act. (2) This act provides for the following...
• Proceeding on Behalf of Minor's Child - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1303
  A minor parent, or a minor parent's guardian or other legal representative, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of...
• Responding Tribunal; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1304
  Except as otherwise provided by this act, a responding tribunal of this state shall do both of the following: (a) Apply the procedural and...
• Forwarding Copies of Petitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1306
  (1) Upon filing of a petition authorized by this act, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward 3 copies of the petition and...
• Receipt of Petitions or Pleadings by Responding Tribunal; Duties; Authority; Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1308
  (1) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly under section 301, the...
• Petition or Pleading Received by Inappropriate Tribunal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1310
  If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this state, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents...
• Services Provided by Support Enforcement Agency, Prosecuting Attorney, or Office of Friend of the Court; Fiduciary Relationship - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1312
  (1) Upon request, a support enforcement agency of this state, or upon the support enforcement agency's request, the prosecuting attorney or office of the...
• Support Enforcement Agency; Neglect or Refusal to Provide Services - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1314
  If the attorney general determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the attorney general may...
• Employment of Private Counsel - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1315
  An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this act.
• Office of Child Support as State Information Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1316
  The office of child support established under the office of child support act, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1971, being sections...
• Petition; Verification; Contents; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1318
  (1) A petitioner seeking to establish or modify a support order or to determine parentage in a proceeding under this act shall verify the...
• Nondisclosure of Certain Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1320
  Upon a finding, which may be made ex parte, that a party's or a child's health, safety, or liberty would be unreasonably put at...
• Fees, Costs, or Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1322
  (1) A petitioner under this act shall not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (2) If an obligee prevails, a...
• Jurisdiction Over Petitioner in Another Proceeding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1324
  Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support...
• Nonparentage as Defense - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1326
  A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by law shall not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under...
• Physical Presence of Petitioner Not Required; Documents Admissible as Evidence; Testimony - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1328
  (1) The petitioner's physical presence in a responding tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support...
• Communication - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1330
  This state's tribunal may communicate with another state's tribunal in writing, or by telephone or other means, to obtain information concerning that state's laws,...
• Authority of State Tribunal to Obtain Discovery - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1332
  This state's tribunal may do any of the following: (a) Request another state's tribunal to assist in obtaining discovery. (b) Upon request, compel a...
• Disbursement of Money Received Under Support Order; Certified Statement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1334
  A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall promptly disburse money received under a support order, as directed by the order. The...
• Issuance of Support Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1401
  (1) If a support order entitled to recognition under this act has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state may issue a...
• Order of Income Withholding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1501
  (1) An income withholding order issued in another state may be sent to the obligor's employer without first filing a petition or comparable pleading...
• Multiple Income Withholding Orders; Priorities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1501a
  If an obligor's employer receives multiple income withholding orders for the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the multiple orders if the...
• Income Withholding Order Issued in Another State; Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1501b
  An employer who complies with an income withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article is not subject to civil liability...
• Income Withholding Order Issued by Another State; Noncompliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1501c
  An employer who willfully fails to comply with an income withholding order issued by another state and received for enforcement is subject to the...
• Income Withholding Order Issued in Another State; Contesting Validity or Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1501d
  An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in...
• Support Enforcement Agency; Receipt of Documents From Another State; Enforcement of Support Order or Income Withholding Order; Registration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1502
  (1) A party seeking to enforce a support order or an income withholding order, or both, issued by another state's tribunal may send the...
• Registration of Order; Documents and Information to Be Sent to State Tribunal; Filing as Foreign Judgment; Affirmative Remedy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1601
  (1) A support order or an income withholding order issued by another state's tribunal may be registered in this state for enforcement by sending...
• Order Issued in Another State; Registration; Recognition; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1603
  (1) A support order or income withholding order issued in another state is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of...
• Support Payments and Arrearages; Governing Law; Statute of Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1605
  (1) The issuing state's law governs the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments and other obligations of support and the payment of...
• Notice to Nonregistering Party - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1621
  (1) When a support order or income withholding order issued in another state is registered, the registering tribunal shall notify the nonregistering party. The...
• Nonregistering Party; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1623
  (1) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered order in this state shall request a hearing within 20...
• Burden of Proof; Defenses; Actions by Tribunal; Further Contest of Order Precluded - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1625
  (1) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving 1...
• Modification of Order Issued in Another State; Petition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1631
  A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register...
• Enforcement of Another State's Child Support Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1633
  This state's tribunal may enforce another state's child support order registered for purposes of modification in the same manner as if the order had...
• Modification of Another State's Child Support Order; Finding by Responding Tribunal; Requirements, Procedures, and Defenses; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1635
  (1) After another state's child support order is registered in this state, the responding tribunal of this state may modify that order only if...
• Recognition of Modification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1637
  This state's tribunal shall recognize a modification of its earlier child support order by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction under a...
• Child Not Resident of Issuing State; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1638
  (1) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a...
• Issuance of Modified Child Support Order; Failure to File With Issuing Tribunal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1639
  Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child support order, the party obtaining the modifications shall file a certified copy of the order...
• Proceeding to Determine Parentage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1701
  (1) This state's tribunal may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under a support enforcement act to determine that...
• "governor" Defined; Authority; Extradition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1801
  (1) For purposes of this article, "governor" includes an individual performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of a state covered by...
• Individual Charged Criminally With Failing to Provide Support; Surrender - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1803
  (1) Before making demand that another state's governor surrender an individual charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for an obligee's...
• Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 552.1901
  This act shall take effect June 1, 1997.

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