Title 722, CHILDREN

Sec. 3. If a county board of commissioners enters into any contract under section 1, a judge of the family division of circuit court for the county shall refer to the proper agency, institution, or hospital with which the contract has been made, the poor, sick, distressed, abando…

Sec. 4. Should the license of any such agency, institution or hospital with which such contract shall have been made be at any time forfeited for any reason, then any contract or contracts existing and unperformed between such agency, institution or hospital and any board of supe…

Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the "revocation of parentage act".

Sec. 3. As used in this act: (a) "Acknowledged parent" means an individual who has affirmatively held themself out to be the child's parent by executing an acknowledgment of parentage under the acknowledgment of parentage act, 1996 PA 305, MCL 722.1001 to 722.1013. (b) "Affiliate…

Sec. 5. (1) Section 7 governs an action to set aside an acknowledgment of parentage. (2) Section 8 governs an action to determine that a genetic father is not a child's father. (3) Section 9 governs an action to set aside an order of filiation. (4) Section 11 governs an action to…

Sec. 7. (1) The mother, the acknowledged parent, an alleged father, or a prosecuting attorney may file an action for revocation of an acknowledgment of parentage. An action under this section must be filed within 3 years after the child's birth or within 1 year after the date tha…

Sec. 8. (1) The mother, the genetic father, an alleged father, or a prosecuting attorney may file an action for an order determining that a genetic father is not a child's father. An action under this section shall be filed within 3 years after the child's birth or within 1 year …

Sec. 9. (1) If a child has an affiliated father and paternity was determined based on the affiliated father's failure to participate in the court proceedings, the mother, an alleged father, or the affiliated father may file a motion with the court that made the determination to s…

Sec. 11. (1) If a child has a presumed parent, a court may determine that the child is born out of wedlock for the purpose of establishing the child's parentage if an action is filed by the child's mother and either of the following applies: (a) All of the following apply: (i) Th…

Sec. 13. (1) An original action under this act must be filed in the circuit court for the county in which the mother or the child resides or, if neither the mother nor the child reside in this state, in the circuit court for the county in which the child was born. If an action fo…

Sec. 15. (1) If an action is brought by an alleged father who proves by clear and convincing evidence that he is the child's father, the court may make a determination of paternity and enter an order of filiation as provided for under section 7 of the paternity act, 1956 PA 205, …

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "child identification and protection act".

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Child" means any person under 17 years of age. (b) "Child or youth with special health care needs" means a single or married individual under 21 years of age whose activity is or may become so restricted by disease or specified medical condition …

Sec. 3. Except as provided in section 4, a governmental unit shall not fingerprint a child.

Sec. 4. (1) Except for fingerprints taken from a child or youth with special health care needs under the process provided for in subsection (2), the following conditions govern a governmental unit's authority to fingerprint a child: (a) A governmental unit may fingerprint a child…

Sec. 5. This act shall not take effect unless House Bill No. 4228 of the 83rd Legislature is enacted into law.

Sec. 101. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "uniform child-custody jurisdiction and enforcement act".

Sec. 102. As used in this act: (a) "Abandoned" means left without provision for reasonable and necessary care or supervision. (b) "Child" means an individual who is younger than 18 years of age. (c) "Child-custody determination" means a judgment, decree, or other court order prov…

Sec. 103. This act does not govern an adoption proceeding or a proceeding pertaining to the authorization of emergency medical care for a child.

Sec. 104. (1) A child-custody proceeding that pertains to an Indian child as defined in the Indian child welfare act of 1978, Public Law 95-608, 25 U.S.C. 1901 to 1903, 1911 to 1923, 1931 to 1934, 1951 to 1952, and 1961 to 1963, is not subject to this act to the extent that the p…

Sec. 105. (1) A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as a state of the United States for the purposes of applying articles 1 and 2. (2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a child-custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances…

Sec. 106. A child-custody determination made by a court of this state that had jurisdiction under this act binds all persons who have been served in accordance with the laws of this state or notified in accordance with section 108 or who have submitted to the jurisdiction of the …

Sec. 107. If a question of existence or exercise of jurisdiction under this act is raised in a child-custody proceeding, upon request of a party, the question must be given priority on the court calendar and handled expeditiously.

Sec. 108. (1) Notice required for the exercise of jurisdiction when a person is outside this state may be given in a manner prescribed by the law of this state for service of process or by the law of the state in which the service is made. Notice must be given in a manner reasona…

Sec. 109. (1) A party to a child-custody proceeding who is not subject to personal jurisdiction in this state and is a responding party under article 2, a party in a proceeding to modify a child-custody determination under article 2, or a petitioner in a proceeding to enforce or …

Sec. 110. (1) A court of this state may communicate with a court in another state concerning a proceeding arising under this act. (2) The court may allow the parties to participate in the communication. If the parties are not able to participate in the communication, the parties …

Sec. 111. (1) In addition to other procedures available to a party, a party to a child-custody proceeding may offer testimony of witnesses who are located in another state, including testimony of the parties and the child, by deposition or other means allowable in this state for …

Sec. 112. (1) A court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any of the following: (a) Hold an evidentiary hearing. (b) Order a person to produce or give evidence under procedures of that state. (c) Order that an evaluation be made with respect to …

Sec. 201. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 204, a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial child-custody determination only in the following situations: (a) This state is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or w…

Sec. 202. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 204, a court of this state that has made a child-custody determination consistent with section 201 or 203 has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the child-custody determination until either of the following occurs: (a) A …

Sec. 203. Except as otherwise provided in section 204, a court of this state shall not modify a child-custody determination made by a court of another state unless a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial child-custody determination under section 201(1)(a) or (b)…

Sec. 204. (1) A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to or threa…

Sec. 205. (1) Before a child-custody determination is made under this act, notice and an opportunity to be heard in accordance with the standards of section 108 must be given to each person entitled to notice under the law of this state as in child-custody proceedings between res…

Sec. 206. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 204, a court of this state may not exercise its jurisdiction under this article if, at the time of the commencement of the proceeding, a child-custody proceeding has been commenced in a court of another state having jurisdicti…

Sec. 207. (1) A court of this state that has jurisdiction under this act to make a child-custody determination may decline to exercise its jurisdiction at any time if it determines that it is an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and that a court of another state is a mor…

Sec. 208. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 204 or by other law of this state, if a court of this state has jurisdiction under this act because a person invoking the court's jurisdiction has engaged in unjustifiable conduct, the court shall decline to exercise its juris…

Sec. 209. (1) Subject to the law of this state providing for confidentiality of procedures, addresses, and other identifying information, in a child-custody proceeding, each party, in its first pleading or in an attached sworn statement, shall give information, if reasonably asce…

Sec. 210. (1) A court of this state may order a party to a child-custody proceeding who is in this state to appear before the court personally with or without the child. The court may order a person who is in this state and who has physical custody or control of the child to appe…

Sec. 301. As used in this article: (a) "Petitioner" means a person who seeks enforcement of a child-custody determination or enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction. (b) "Respondent" means a pe…

Sec. 302. (1) This article may be invoked to enforce 1 or both of the following: (a) A child-custody determination. (b) An order for the return of a child made under the Hague convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction. (2) A court of this state that does no…

Sec. 303. (1) A court of this state shall recognize and enforce a child-custody determination of a court of another state if the latter court exercised jurisdiction that was in substantial conformity with this act or the child-custody determination was made under factual circumst…

Sec. 304. (1) A child-custody determination issued by a court of another state may be registered in this state, with or without a simultaneous request for enforcement, by sending all of the following to the circuit court in this state: (a) A letter or other document requesting re…

Sec. 305. (1) A court of this state may grant any relief normally available under the law of this state to enforce a registered child-custody determination made by a court of another state. (2) A court of this state shall recognize and enforce, but shall not modify except in acco…

Sec. 306. If a proceeding for enforcement under this article is commenced in this state and a court of this state determines that a proceeding to modify the child-custody determination has been commenced in another state having jurisdiction to modify the child-custody determinati…

Sec. 307. (1) A petition under this article must be verified. A certified copy of a child-custody determination sought to be enforced and of the order confirming registration, if any, must be attached to the petition. A copy of a certified copy of an order may be attached instead…

Sec. 308. Except as otherwise provided in section 310, the petition and order must be served, by a method authorized by the law of this state, upon respondent and any person who has physical custody of the child.