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2015 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 691 - Judiciary
Act 20 of 2008 UNIFORM FOREIGN-COUNTRY MONEY JUDGMENTS RECOGNITION ACT (691.1131 - 691.1143)
AN ACT to revise the standards under which courts of this state recognize foreign money judgments; to establish procedures for the recognition of foreign money judgments; to limit the time within which an action to enforce a foreign money judgment may be commenced; to make uniform the law relating to the enforcement of foreign money judgments; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
History: 2008, Act 20, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008
- Section 691.1131 Short title.
- Section 691.1132 Definitions.
- Section 691.1133 Applicability of act; scope.
- Section 691.1134 Foreign-country judgment; recognition by court; burden for establishing ground for nonrecognition.
- Section 691.1135 Lack of personal jurisdiction; refusal of recognition prohibited; conditions; bases.
- Section 691.1136 Recognition of foreign-country judgment; raising action as original matter; raising action by counterclaim, cross-claim, or affirmative defense.
- Section 691.1137 Foreign-country judgment; findings.
- Section 691.1138 Appeal; stay of proceedings.
- Section 691.1139 Recognition of foreign-country judgment; commencement of action.
- Section 691.1140 Applicability and construction of act; promotion of uniformity of law.
- Section 691.1141 Recognition of foreign-country judgment under principles of comity.
- Section 691.1142 Applicability of act.
- Section 691.1143 Repeal of MCL 691.1151 to 691.1159.
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