Section 552.1225 - State tribunal serving as initiating or responding tribunal. - Michigan Statutes

UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 310 of 1996

552.1225 State tribunal serving as initiating or responding tribunal.

Sec. 225.

(1) This state's tribunal may serve as an initiating tribunal to request another state's tribunal to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.

(2) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject to the tribunal's continuing, exclusive jurisdiction no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply section 328 to receive evidence from another state and section 332 to obtain discovery through another state's tribunal.

(3) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order shall not serve as a responding tribunal to modify another state's spousal support order.

History: 1996, Act 310, Eff. June 1, 1997