Sec. 9.
(1) The office may accept a support payment made in cash or by cashier's check or money order. If the office accepts such a payment, the office shall transmit the payment to the SDU and shall inform the payer of the SDU's location and the requirement to make payments through the SDU.
(2) Promptly after November 3, 1999, each office shall establish and maintain the support order and account records necessary to enforce support orders and necessary to record obligations, support and fee receipt and disbursement, and related payments. Each office shall provide the SDU with access to those records and shall assist the SDU to resolve support and fee receipt and disbursement problems related to inadequate identifying information.
(3) The office shall provide annually to each party, without charge, 1 statement of account upon request. Additional statements of account shall be provided at a reasonable fee sufficient to pay for the cost of reproduction. Statements provided under this subsection are in addition to statements provided for administrative and judicial hearings.
(4) The office shall initiate and carry out proceedings to enforce an order in a friend of the court case regarding custody, parenting time, health care coverage, or support in accordance with this act, the support and parenting time enforcement act, and supreme court rules.
(5) Upon request of a child support agency of another state, the office shall initiate and carry out certain proceedings to enforce support orders entered in the other state without the need to register the order as a friend of the court case in this state. The order shall be enforced using automated administrative enforcement actions authorized under the support and parenting time enforcement act.
History: 1982, Act 294, Eff. July 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 241, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 144, Eff. Mar. 25, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 365, Eff. Jan. 1, 1997 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 63, Eff. Aug. 10, 1998 ;-- Am. 1999, Act 150, Imd. Eff. Nov. 3, 1999 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 571, Eff. June 1, 2003 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 210, Eff. Oct. 1, 2004 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 382, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015 Popular Name: Friend of the Court
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 294 of 1982 - Friend of the Court Act (552.501 - 552.535)
Section 552.501 - Short Title; Purposes and Construction of Act.
Section 552.502 - Definitions; a to I.
Section 552.502a - Definitions; M to T.
Section 552.504b - Information and Records to Be Provided to Citizen Advisory Committee.
Section 552.505a - Open Friend of the Court Case; Closure.
Section 552.508 - Expediting Relief; Methods.
Section 552.509a - Centralized Receipt and Disbursement of Support and Fees.
Section 552.512 - Reporting Information to Consumer Reporting Agency.
Section 552.515 - Certain Actions by Employee Providing Domestic Relations Mediation; Prohibition.
Section 552.517a - Repealed. 2002, Act 571, Imd. Eff. Oct. 3, 2002.
Section 552.517c - Review of Support Order in Another State; Procedures.
Section 552.517d - Motion for Modification of Parenting Time Order.
Section 552.517e - Arrearage Payment Schedules; Administrative Adjustment.
Section 552.518 - Information From Employer or Former Employer Relative to Parent.
Section 552.520 - Information Requested by Department of Human Services.
Section 552.522 - Appointment of Attorney to Assist Friend of the Court; Compensation.
Section 552.525 - Removal of Friend of the Court; Approval.
Section 552.526 - Grievance Procedure; Record; Powers and Duties of Citizen Advisory Committee.
Section 552.527 - Compensation and Expenses of Friend of the Court and Employees.
Section 552.528 - Compilation of Data.
Section 552.531 - Repealed. 1996, Act 366, Eff. Jan. 1, 1997.
Section 552.533 - Repeal of MCL 552.251 to 552.255.