Section 552.1316 - Office of child support as state information agency. - Michigan Statutes

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

552.1316 Office of child support as state information agency.

Sec. 316.

The office of child support established under the office of child support act, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1971, being sections 400.231 to 400.235 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is this state's information agency under this act. The state information agency shall do all of the following:

(a) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of this state's tribunals that have jurisdiction under this act and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to every other state's information agency.

(b) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states.

(c) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this state in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this act received from an initiating tribunal or the initiating state's information agency of the initiating state.

(d) Obtain information concerning the obligor's location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver licenses, and social security.

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