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Chapter 552 - Divorce
Act 295 of 1982 Support and Parenting Time Enforcement Act (552.601 - 552.650)
AN ACT to provide for and to supplement statutes that provide for the provisions and enforcement of support, health care, and parenting time orders with respect to divorce, separate maintenance, paternity, child custody and support, and spousal support; to prescribe and authorize certain provisions of those orders; to prescribe the powers and duties of the circuit court and friend of the court; to prescribe certain duties of certain employers and other sources of income; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
History: 1982, Act 295, Eff. July 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 1985, Act 210, Eff. Mar. 1, 1987 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 236, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 25, Eff. June 1, 1996 ;-- Am. 2001, Act 106, Eff. Sept. 30, 2001
- Section 552.601 Short Title.
- Section 552.602 Definitions.
- Section 552.603 Support Order; Enforcement; Information to Be Included; Notice of New Information; Service of Notices or Other Papers; Accrued Interest Prohibited; Failure to Comply With Requirements; Fee; Admission Into Evidence.
- Section 552.603a Failure to Pay Support; Surcharge; Calculation; Assessment; Collection; Enforcement.
- Section 552.603b Retroactive Correction of Support Amount.
- Section 552.603d Repayment Plan.
- Section 552.604 Support Order to Provide for Order of Income Withholding; Order of Income Withholding by Operation of Law; Notice; Effective Date of Order.
- Section 552.605 Child Support Order; Deviation From Formula; Agreement.
- Section 552.605a Information to Be Provided to Office of the Friend of the Court; Health Care Coverage; Use of Guidelines; Bond.
- Section 552.605b Child Support After 18 Years of Age.
- Section 552.605c Support Order; Monthly Amounts; Conversion; Proration; Applicability of Excess Payment Against Arrearage; Refund.
- Section 552.605d Support Order; Provisions; Assignment, Redirection, or Abatement of Support Payment; Notice.
- Section 552.605e Payment Plan for Arrearages.
- Section 552.606 Support Order Entered Under Interstate Income Withholding Act.
- Section 552.607 Notice of Arrearage to Payer; Contents; Sending Copy of Notice to Recipient; Request for Hearing; Time of Hearing; De Novo Hearing; Consolidation of Hearings; Completion of Proceedings; Review by Friend of the Court Office.
- Section 552.607a Documentary Evidence of Income Withheld.
- Section 552.608 Limitation on Amount of Income Withheld.
- Section 552.609 Order of Income Withholding; Service; Notice.
- Section 552.610 Payer to Give Friend of Court Name and Address of Employer.
- Section 552.611 Order of Income Withholding; Duration; Priority.
- Section 552.611a More Than 1 Order of Income Withholding Against Payer or Parent; Compliance With Source of Income; Liability; Identification of Withholding; Combining Amounts in Single Payment; Identifying Portion of Single Payment Attributable to Each Payer.
- Section 552.612 Compliance With Order as Discharge of Liability to Payer.
- Section 552.613 Failure to Comply With Order; Contempt; Finding; Initiation of Proceedings; Jurisdiction.
- Section 552.614 Termination or Interruption of Payer's Income; Notice; Service on New Employer or Other Source of Income.
- Section 552.615 Notice of Change in Circumstances.
- Section 552.615a Military Service Adjustment; Procedures.
- Section 552.617 Notice of Support Modification; Changing Amount Assigned or Withheld.
- Section 552.619 Modifying Support Order to Exclude Support for Child of Whom Payer Awarded Sole Custody; Suspension or Termination of Order of Income Withholding; Circumstances Prohibiting Written Agreement; Effectiveness of Order of Income Withholding; Refund of Money Improperly Withheld.
- Section 552.621 Repealed. 1990, Act 296, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1990.
- Section 552.623 Using Order of Income Withholding as Basis for Refusing to Employ, Discharging, Disciplining, or Penalizing Payer Prohibited; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Restitution; Use of Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License as Basis; Exception; Fee.
- Section 552.624 Offset Proceedings Against Delinquent Payer's Tax Refunds.
- Section 552.624a Proceedings to Set Aside Transfer of Title or Ownership of Property Without Fair Consideration.
- Section 552.624b Notification to Child Support Lien Network and Additional Clearinghouses of Payer With Support Arrearage.
- Section 552.625 Enforcement of Support Orders; Providing Bond, Security, or Other Guarantee.
- Section 552.625a Lien; Creation; Effect; Full Faith and Credit to Liens Created in Other States; Priority; Notice; Exceptions to Creation of Lien; Effect of Lien on Itemized Amount in Redemption Order; Definitions.
- Section 552.625b Remedy as Cumulative; Lien; Perfection; Notice; Review Procedures; Enforcement; Termination; Disclosure of Information.
- Section 552.625c Remedy as Cumulative; Arrearage Under Payer's Support Order; Payer's Financial Assets Held by Financial Institution; Notice of Lien and Levy; Form; Notice of Withdrawal; Release of Assets.
- Section 552.625d Obligation or Liability of Financial Institution, Insurer, or Carrier; Limitations.
- Section 552.625e Freeze of Payer's Financial Assets; Execution; Notice.
- Section 552.625f Levy on Financial Assets; Challenge; Procedures.
- Section 552.625g Forwarding Money by Financial Institution, Insurer, or Carrier.
- Section 552.625h Circuit Court Review.
- Section 552.625i Return of Forwarded Money to Payer; Reimbursement of Fee, Cost, or Penalty; Interest; Allocations.
- Section 552.626 Notice of Income Withholding; Failure of Parent to Obtain or Maintain Health Care Coverage for Child; Duties of Friend of the Court.
- Section 552.626a Eligibility of Parent for Health Care Coverage Through Employer; Duties of Employer.
- Section 552.626b Order or Notice for Dependent Health Care Coverage; Requirements.
- Section 552.626c Order for Health Care Coverage; Modification Notice.
- Section 552.626d Notice to Department of Social Services Identifying Health Care Coverage.
- Section 552.627 Other Enforcement Action.
- Section 552.628 Order to Suspend Payer's Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License; Notice to Payer.
- Section 552.629 Suspension Hearing; Consolidation With Modification Hearing; Order to Pay Arrearage in Installments; Suspension Order; Failure of Payer to Comply With Order.
- Section 552.630 Suspension of Occupational, Driver's, or Recreational or Sporting License by Licensing Agency; Sending Copy of Order; Schedule for Payment of Arrearage.
- Section 552.631 Failure or Refusal to Obey and Perform Support Order; Civil Contempt Proceeding; Failure to Appear; Bench Warrant; Cash Performance Bond; Custody; Payment and Disposition of Costs; Order Rendering Vehicle Inoperable.
- Section 552.632 Payer Arrested Under Bench Warrant; Cash Performance Bond; Hearing; Form of Bond Receipt; Failure to Appear; Transmission and Deposit of Bond; Setting Aside Contempt Finding; Voluntary Appearance by Payer; Receipt.
- Section 552.633 Finding Payer in Contempt; Presumption; Proof of Currently Available Resources.
- Section 552.635 Repealed. 2014, Act 378, Eff. March 17, 2015.
- Section 552.635a Alternative Contempt Track Docket.
- Section 552.636 Friend of the Court Enforcement Action; Assessment of Reasonable Expenses.
- Section 552.637 Order of Commitment.
- Section 552.639 Committing Payer to County Jail or Alternative to Jail; Violating Conditions of Court; Failure to Return to Place of Confinement as Escape From Custody; Misdemeanor; Penalty.
- Section 552.641 Complaint Alleging Custody or Parenting Time Order Violation; Duties of Friend of Court; Declining to Respond to Violation; Circumstances; Compliance With Mcl 552.519.
- Section 552.642 Makeup Parenting Time Policy; Establishment; Approval; Provisions of Policy; Notice; Response; Procedures.
- Section 552.642a Joint Meeting.
- Section 552.644 Civil Contempt Proceeding to Resolve Dispute Concerning Parenting Time; Commencement by Office of Friend of Court; Notice; Allegations; Finding of Violation; Powers of Court; "Good Cause" Defined; Duration of Commitment; Release; Bench Warrant; Sanction for Bad Faith; Judgment; Payment of Costs; Order Rendering Vehicle Inoperable.
- Section 552.645 Finding of Contempt for Noncompliance With Makeup and Ongoing Parenting Time Schedule; Suspension of License; Agreement; Hearing on Modification of Parenting Time.
- Section 552.646 Custodial Parent Committed to Jail or Alternative to Jail Under Mcl 552.644(2)(f); Violation of Conditions of Court; Commitment to County Jail Without Privilege; Failure to Return to Place of Confinement as Escape From Custody; Misdemeanor; Penalty.
- Section 552.648 Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees.
- Section 552.649 Conditional Effective Date.
- Section 552.650 Effective Date.
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