Title 722, CHILDREN

Sec. 5b. The legal guardianship must be a judicially created relationship as provided for under sections 19a and 19c of chapter XIIA of the probate code, MCL 712A.19a and 712A.19c, another state's law or code, or tribal law or code when the child is a ward of this state, between …

Sec. 5c. (1) Subject to provisions of this act, the department may pay guardianship assistance to an eligible successor guardian on behalf of an eligible child. (2) The successor guardian shall apply for guardianship assistance under this act to the department. (3) The preceding …

Sec. 5d. The department may promulgate rules according to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, that are necessary to implement and administer the program under this act in compliance with federal law.

Sec. 6. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the department may not provide guardianship assistance after 1 of the following occurs: (a) The child reaches 18 years of age. (b) The department determines that the guardian is no longer legally responsible for support of the chi…

Sec. 7. The guardian or successor guardian shall apply for and maintain on behalf of the child any public or private medical insurance or assistance for which the child is eligible, including eligibility under applicable laws providing financial assistance for medical or health c…

Sec. 8. (1) The department is responsible for collecting, assembling, and reporting all data and information required for reporting purposes. (2) The guardian or successor guardian shall cooperate with the department and provide all information that the guardian or successor guar…

Sec. 9. An applicant for guardianship assistance under this act or a guardian, successor guardian, or child who has received guardianship assistance under a guardianship assistance agreement may appeal a decision of the department denying the application, establishing or modifyin…

Sec. 11. Families are eligible for postpermanency services in the same manner as adoptive families.

Sec. 1. Whenever it appears to the court that a child placed with, committed to, or released to a person, society, organization, association, or corporation licensed and approved by the family independence agency to receive, maintain, or place out for adoption minor children or t…

Sec. 2. Whenever, after a careful investigation and report, it shall appear to the director of the state department of social welfare that any child in Michigan under 17 years of age has no guardian willing and able to take suitable action in behalf of the child or that it appear…

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county, in some court of or for which the director, with the advice of the attorney general, determines to begin his action to discharge this service for the state including appeals whenever such may be necessary to …

Sec. 4. As it is the intent of the legislature that this duty shall be for the general purpose of clarifying the laws for the protection of children, when a question of jurisdiction based on residence is concerned, all cases arising under this act shall be deemed public cases wit…

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Minor" means a person under the age of 18 years. (b) "Parents" means natural parents, if married prior or subsequent to the minor's birth; adopting parents, if the minor has been legally adopted; or the mother, if the minor is illegitimate. (c) "…

Sec. 2. Unless otherwise ordered by a court order, the parents of an unemancipated minor are equally entitled to the custody, control, services and earnings of the minor, but if 1 parent provides, to the exclusion of the other parent, for the maintenance and support of the minor,…

Sec. 3. (1) The parents are jointly and severally obligated to support a minor as prescribed in section 5 of the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552.605, unless a court of competent jurisdiction modifies or terminates the obligation or the minor is em…

Sec. 4. (1) Emancipation may occur by operation of law or according to a petition filed by a minor with the family division of circuit court as provided in this act. (2) An emancipation occurs by operation of law under any of the following circumstances: (a) When a minor is valid…

Sec. 4a. (1) A minor seeking emancipation shall file a petition for emancipation in the family division of circuit court in the county where the minor resides. The petition shall be signed and verified by the minor, and shall include all of the following information: (a) The mino…

Sec. 4b. After a petition is filed, the court may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Assign an employee of the court to investigate the allegations of the petition and to file a report containing the results of the investigation with the court. (b) Appoint legal counsel for the m…

Sec. 4c. (1) The hearing shall be before a judge or referee sitting without a jury. If the minor requests that the hearing be before a judge, the hearing shall be before a judge and not before a referee. (2) The court shall issue an emancipation order if it determines that emanci…

Sec. 4d. (1) A parent of a minor emancipated by court order or a minor emancipated by court order may petition the family division of circuit court that issued the order to rescind the order. If the order of emancipation is entered by the probate court before January 1, 1998, the…

Sec. 4e. (1) A minor emancipated by operation of law or by court order has the rights and responsibilities of an adult, except for those specific constitutional and statutory age requirements regarding voting, use of alcoholic beverages, and other health and safety regulations re…

Sec. 5. The earnings of an employed unemancipated minor may be paid directly to him unless his parents or his guardian give notice to the employer that future payments should be made to the parents or guardian.

Sec. 6. This act does not affect obligations of support imposed under other laws of this state.

Sec. 1. No person shall knowingly and wilfully aid or abet a child under the age of 17 years to violate an order of a juvenile court or knowingly and wilfully conceal or harbor juvenile runaways who have taken flight from the custody of the court, their parents or legal guardian.

Sec. 2. Any person who violates the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "acknowledgment of parentage act".

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Acknowledged parent" means an individual who has established a parent-child relationship under this act. (b) "Acknowledgment" means an acknowledgment of parentage executed as provided in this act. (c) "Child" means a child conceived and born to a…

Sec. 3. (1) If a child is born out of wedlock, a man is considered to be the natural father of that child if the man joins with the mother of the child and acknowledges that child as his child by completing a form that is an acknowledgment of parentage. (2) If a child born out of…

Sec. 4. An acknowledgment that complies with this act and is filed with the state registrar establishes parentage and is the equivalent to an adjudication of parentage of the child and confers on the acknowledged parent all rights and duties of a parent, and the acknowledgment ma…

Sec. 5. (1) A completed original acknowledgment of parentage shall be filed with the state registrar. Upon receipt of an acknowledgment, the state registrar shall review the form. If it appears to be properly completed and notarized or each signature is witnessed as provided unde…

Sec. 6. After completion of an acknowledgement of parentage signed according to section 3(1) that complies with this act is filed with the state registrar, the mother has initial custody of the minor child, without prejudice to the determination of either parent's custodial right…

Sec. 7. The acknowledgment of parentage form must include at least all of the following written notices to the parties: (a) The acknowledgment of parentage is a legal document. (b) Completion of the acknowledgment is voluntary. (c) For acknowledgments of parentage signed accordin…

Sec. 8. The state registrar shall prepare or approve the form used for acknowledgment of parentage. The form shall conform as closely as possible to section 7, federal requirements, and the needs of other appropriate state agencies. The state registrar shall make the form availab…

Sec. 9. In proceedings under this act, the court may appoint a next friend or guardian ad litem to represent a minor parent at the court's discretion. A minor parent may sign an acknowledgment of parentage with the same effect as if he or she were of legal age.

Sec. 10. Except as otherwise provided by law, a mother and father who sign an acknowledgment that is filed as prescribed by section 5 are consenting to the general, personal jurisdiction of the courts of record of this state regarding the issues of the support, custody, and paren…

Sec. 12. This act does not affect the validity of an acknowledgment signed before the effective date of this act. The procedures for determination of a claim for revocation apply to all acknowledgments, including those signed before the effective date of this act.

Sec. 13. This act shall take effect June 1, 1997.

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "genetic parentage act".

Sec. 3. As used in this act: (a) "Alleged father" means a man who by his actions could have fathered the child. (b) "Child born out of wedlock" means a child conceived and born to a woman who was not married from the conception to the date of birth of the child or a child that th…

Sec. 5. This act cannot be used to determine parentage if 1 or more of the following is true: (a) The child's parent has previously acknowledged parentage under the acknowledgment of parentage act, 1996 PA 305, MCL 722.1001 to 722.1013, or if the child's parentage has been establ…

Sec. 7. (1) If a child is born out of wedlock, a man is considered to be the biological father of that child if all of the following are true: (a) The alleged father or mother is receiving services from a title IV-D agency. (b) The mother, child, and alleged father submitted to b…

Sec. 9. (1) Genetic testing that determines a man is the biological father of a child under this act establishes paternity. If genetic testing establishes paternity as described in this subsection, the mother is granted initial custody of the child, without prejudice to the deter…

Sec. 11. (1) The title IV-D agency shall file a genetic paternity determination form and a summary report with the state registrar. The state registrar shall review the genetic paternity determination form and the summary report upon receipt. If the genetic paternity determinatio…

Sec. 13. Except as otherwise provided by law, a mother and father who have genetic tests that are filed as a genetic paternity determination form as prescribed by section 11 are consenting to the general personal jurisdiction of the courts of record of this state regarding the is…

Sec. 15. The department of human services in consultation with the department of community health shall create the genetic paternity determination form.

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "summary support and paternity act".