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Act 295 of 1982 - SUPPORT AND PARENTING TIME ENFORCEMENT ACT (552.601 - 552.650)
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; 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; bond or cash deposit; custody; payment and disposition of costs.
Section 552.632 ‑ Payer arrested under bench warrant; cash performance bond; hearing on order to show cause; form of bond receipt; failure to appear; transmission and deposit of bond; setting aside contempt finding.
Section 552.633 ‑ Finding payer in contempt; presumption; proof of currently available resources; order; noncompliance with arrearage payment schedule; suspension of license.
Section 552.635 ‑ Finding payer in contempt; order; release of payer from county jail; noncompliance with arrearage payment schedule; suspension of license.
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; finding of violation; powers of court; "good cause" defined; duration of commitment; release; bench warrant; sanction for bad faith; judgment; payment of costs.
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.