Michigan Compiled Laws R-s-1846-552-1-84-divorce Divorce (552.1...552.46)

• Section 552.1 Invalidity Of Marriages; Legitimacy Of Issue.
  If solemnized within this state, a marriage that is prohibited by law because of consanguinity or affinity between the parties, because either party had...
• Section 552.2 Invalidity Of Marriages; Marriage Of Person Under Age Of Consent, Marriage By Fraud, Lack Of Cohabitation.
  In case of a marriage solemnized when either of the parties was under the age of legal consent, if they shall separate during such...
• Section 552.3 Marriage Of Doubtful Validity; Procedure To Annul.
  When a marriage is supposed to be void, or the validity thereof is doubted, for any of the causes mentioned in the 2 preceding...
• Section 552.4 Marriage Of Doubtful Validity; Procedure To Affirm.
  When the validity of any marriage shall be denied or doubted by either of the parties, the other party may file a bill or...
• Section 552.5 Repealed. 1951, Act 14, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section declared that sentence of life imprisonment on either party dissolved marriage without decree of divorce or other legal process, and...
• Section 552.6 Complaint For Divorce; Filing; Grounds; Answer; Judgment.
  (1) A complaint for divorce may be filed in the circuit court upon the allegation that there has been a breakdown of the marriage...
• Section 552.7 Action For Separate Maintenance; Filing; Grounds; Answer; Effect Of Admission; Counterclaim For Divorce; Judgment.
  (1) An action for separate maintenance may be filed in the circuit court in the same manner and on the same grounds as an...
• Section 552.8 Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to additional grounds for divorce from bonds of matrimony.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.9 Judgment Of Divorce; Residency Requirement; Exception.
  (1) A judgment of divorce shall not be granted by a court in this state in an action for divorce unless the complainant or...
• Section 552.9a Decree Of Divorce; Conditions.
  No decree of divorce shall be granted in any case except when 1 of the following facts exists: (a) The defendant is domiciled in...
• Section 552.9b, 552.9c Repealed. 1958, Act 227, Imd. Eff. May 26, 1958.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections provided that actions for divorce should be commenced by filing praecipe for summons with clerk, set forth requirements for filing,...
• Section 552.9d Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to the occurrence of desertion.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.9e Divorce; Cause Occurring Out Of State, Residence.
  Whenever the cause for divorce charged in the bill or petition has occurred out of this state, no decree of divorce shall be granted...
• Section 552.9f Divorce; Taking Of Testimony; Minor Children; Perpetuating Testimony; Nonresident Defendant, Residence Of Plaintiff.
  No proofs or testimony shall be taken in any case for divorce until the expiration of 60 days from the time of filing the...
• Section 552.10 Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to collusion or misconduct of parties.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.11 Action For Divorce; Answer Without Oath.
  An action for a divorce may be brought by a wife or a husband, and in all cases the respondent may answer the bill...
• Section 552.12 Suit; Conduct, Power Of Court.
  Suits to annul or affirm a marriage, or for a divorce, shall be conducted in the same manner as other suits in courts of...
• Section 552.13 Alimony; Costs; Termination.
  (1) In every action brought, either for a divorce or for a separation, the court may require either party to pay alimony for the...
• Section 552.14 Action For Annulment, Divorce, Or Separate Maintenance; Entering Personal Protection Order.
  (1) On the motion of a party at any time after the filing of a complaint in an action to annul a marriage or...
• Section 552.15 Care, Custody, And Support Of Minor Children During Pendency Of Action; Support Order; Enforcement.
  (1) After the filing of a complaint in an action to annul a marriage or for a divorce or separate maintenance, on the motion...
• Section 552.16 Care, Custody, And Support Of Minor Child After Annulment Or Judgment Of Divorce Or Separate Maintenance; Enforcement.
  (1) Upon annulling a marriage or entering a judgment of divorce or separate maintenance, the court may enter the orders it considers just and...
• Section 552.16a Repealed. 2001, Act 107, Eff. Sept. 30, 2001.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to support of child after child reaches 18 years of age.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.17 Revision And Alteration Of Judgment Concerning Care, Custody, Maintenance, And Support Of Children; Enforceability Of Order.
  (1) After entry of a judgment concerning annulment, divorce, or separate maintenance and on the petition of either parent, the court may revise and...
• Section 552.17a Jurisdiction Of Court; Application For Modification Of Judgment Or Order; Waiver Of Contempt.
  (1) The court has jurisdiction to make an order or judgment relative to the minor children of the parties as authorized in this chapter...
• Section 552.18 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.
  (1) Any rights in and to vested pension, annuity, or retirement benefits, or accumulated contributions in any pension, annuity, or retirement system, payable to...
• Section 552.19 Restoration Of Real And Personal Estate To Parties.
  Upon the annulment of a marriage, a divorce from the bonds of matrimony or a judgment of separate maintenance, the court may make a...
• Section 552.20 Real And Personal Property Or Money In Lieu Thereof; Delivery Or Payment To Trustee; Investment; Application Of Income.
  Upon every divorce, and upon every divorce from bed and board for any cause, if any real and personal estate of either party, or...
• Section 552.21 Payment Of Principal Sum On Court Order; Bonds.
  Such trustees shall also pay over the principal sum to either party and children of the marriage, when ordered by the court, in such...
• Section 552.22 Disclosure Of Property.
  Whenever the court shall think proper to award to either party any of the real and personal estate of either party, or any money...
• Section 552.23 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.
  (1) Upon entry of a judgment of divorce or separate maintenance, if the estate and effects awarded to either party are insufficient for the...
• Section 552.24 Centralized Receipt And Disbursement Of Support And Fees.
  The SDU is responsible for the centralized receipt and disbursement of support. An office of the friend of the court may continue to receive...
• Section 552.27 Alimony Or Allowance For Support And Education Of Children As Lien; Default; Powers Of Court.
  If alimony or an allowance for the support and education of the children is awarded to either party, the amount of the alimony or...
• Section 552.28 Judgment For Alimony Or Allowance Or For Appointment Of Trustees; Revision Or Alteration.
  On petition of either party, after a judgment for alimony or other allowance for either party or a child, or after a judgment for...
• Section 552.29 Presumption Of Legitimacy.
  The legitimacy of all children begotten before the commencement of any action under this act shall be presumed until the contrary be shown. History:...
• Section 552.30 Legitimacy Of Issue; Dissolution Of Marriage.
  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...
• Section 552.31 Legitimacy Of Issue; Dissolution Of Bigamous Marriage Entered Into In Good Faith.
  When a marriage is dissolved on account of a prior marriage of either party, and it shall appear that the second marriage was contracted...
• Section 552.34 Action To Annul Marriage Of Minor.
  An action to annul a marriage on the ground that 1 of the parties was under the age of legal consent, as provided in...
• Section 552.35 Marriage Annulment; Action By Party's Next Friend.
  If, at the time of a marriage, a party to the marriage was not capable in law of contracting, an individual admitted by the...
• Section 552.36 Marriage Annulment; Action By Party To Marriage.
  A party to a marriage who, at the time of the marriage, was not capable in law of contracting and who later becomes capable...
• Section 552.37 Marriage Annulment; Ground Of Force Or Fraud; Effect Of Voluntary Cohabitation.
  No marriage shall be annulled on the ground of force or fraud, if it shall appear that, at any time before the commencement of...
• Section 552.38 Marriage Annulment; Ground Of Force Or Fraud; Custody And Maintenance Of Issue.
  If there shall be any issue of a marriage, annulled on the ground of force or fraud, the court shall decree their custody to...
• Section 552.39 Marriage Annulment; Ground Of Physical Incapacity; Party To Maintain; Time Limitation Of Suit.
  A suit to annul a marriage, on the ground of the physical incapacity of 1 of the parties, shall only be maintained by the...
• Section 552.40-552.42 Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed sections pertained to divorce decrees, adultery, and orders for support and maintenance of wife and children.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.43 Divorce From Bed And Board; Decree; Limited Time, Revocation.
  When a decree of divorce from bed and board forever, or for a limited time, shall have been pronounced, it may be revoked at...
• Section 552.44 Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to testimony taken before a circuit court commissioner.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce
• Section 552.45 Children; Enumeration In Complaint; Notice To Prosecutor Of Friend Of Court; Decree Opposition, Interest Of Prosecutor Or Partners In Case.
  Every bill of complaint filed shall set forth the names and ages of all children of the marriage, and if there are children under...
• Section 552.46 Repealed. 1971, Act 75, Eff. Jan. 1, 1972.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to remarriage.Popular Name: No-Fault Divorce

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