Title 552, DIVORCE

Sec. 317. A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record, or by telephone, electronic mail, or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal, and the status of a p…

Sec. 318. A tribunal of this state may do the following: (a) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery. (b) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.

Sec. 319. (1) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received under a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certif…

Sec. 401. (1) If a support order entitled to recognition under this act has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if either of the following apply: (a) The individual seeking the order resides ou…

Sec. 402. A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this act or a law or procedure substantially similar to this act.

Sec. 501. An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer under section 2 of the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552.…

Sec. 502. (1) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. (2) The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issu…

Sec. 503. If an obligor's employer receives 2 or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment to es…

Sec. 504. An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.

Sec. 505. An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

Sec. 506. (1) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in articl…

Sec. 507. (1) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this sta…

Sec. 601. A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.

Sec. 602. (1) Except as provided in section 706, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state: (a) A letter of transmittal to the …

Sec. 603. (1) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state. (2) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable…

Sec. 604. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs all of the following: (a) The nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments under a registered support order. (b) The computation and payment of arrear…

Sec. 605. (1) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the …

Sec. 606. (1) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered order in this state shall request a hearing within the time required by section 605. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an alleg…

Sec. 607. (1) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving 1 or more of the following defenses: (a) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party. (b) The…

Sec. 608. Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.

Sec. 609. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in sections 601 through 608 if the order has not been registered. A petit…

Sec. 610. A tribunal of this state may enforce a child-support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements…

Sec. 611. (1) If section 613 does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of this state may modify a child-support order issued in another state that is registered in this state if, after notice and hearing, the tribunal finds that either of the following applies: (a) The following r…

Sec. 612. If a child-support order issued by a tribunal of this state is modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction under the uniform interstate family support act, all of the following apply: (a) A tribunal of this state may enforce its order that was modi…

Sec. 613. (1) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child-support order in a proceeding to register that order. (2) …

Sec. 614. Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child-support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order, and in each tribunal in which the…

Sec. 615. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 711, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child-support order according to its laws, a tribunal of this state may assume jurisdiction to modify the child-support order and bind all indiv…

Sec. 616. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child-support order not under the Convention may register that order in this state under sections 601 through 608 if the order has not been registered. A petition for modificati…

Sec. 701. As used in this article: (a) "Application" means a request under the Convention by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for assistance from another central authority. (b) "Central authority" means the entity designated by the …

Sec. 702. This article applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of this article is inconsistent with articles 1 through 6, this article controls.

Sec. 703. The office of child support is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the Convention.

Sec. 704. (1) In a support proceeding under this article, the office of child support of this state shall do the following: (a) Transmit and receive applications. (b) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. (2) …

Sec. 705. (1) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. (2) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement…

Sec. 706. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a Convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in article 6. (2) Notwithstanding sections 311 and 602(1),…

Sec. 707. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this article, sections 605 through 608 apply to a contest of a registered Convention support order. (2) A party contesting a registered Convention support order shall file a contest not later than 30 days after notice of the registrat…

Sec. 708. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a registered Convention support order. (2) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a r…

Sec. 709. If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a Convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a Convention support order.

Sec. 710. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (3) and (4), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state. (2) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement mu…

Sec. 711. (1) A tribunal of this state may not modify a Convention child-support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless 1 of the following applies: (a) The obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this …

Sec. 712. Personal information gathered or transmitted under this article may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.

Sec. 713. A record filed with a tribunal of this state under this article must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation.

Sec. 801. (1) For purposes of this article, "governor" includes an individual performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of a state covered by this act. (2) The governor of this state may do the following: (a) Demand that the governor of another state surrend…

Sec. 802. (1) Before making a demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee, the governor of this state may require a prosecutor of this state to demonstrate that at l…

Sec. 901. In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

Sec. 902. This act applies to proceedings begun on or after the effective date of this act to establish a support order or determine parentage of a child or to register, recognize, enforce, or modify a prior support order, determination, or agreement, whenever issued or entered.

Sec. 903. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisi…