UNIFORM FOREIGN-COUNTRY MONEY JUDGMENTS RECOGNITION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 20 of 2008


691.1132 Definitions.

Sec. 2.

    As used in this act:
    (a) "Foreign country" means a government other than any of the following:
    (i) The United States.
    (ii) A state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States.
    (iii) A federally recognized Indian tribe whose tribal court judgments are entitled to recognition and presumed to be valid under a court rule adopted by the supreme court.
    (iv) Any other government with regard to which the decision in this state as to whether to recognize a judgment of that government's courts is initially subject to determination under the full faith and credit clause of the United States constitution.
    (b) "Foreign-country judgment" means the judgment of a court of a foreign country.


History: 2008, Act 20, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008




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