Bill Text: MI HB4764 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; certain references in provision for alimony awarded by court of another state; make gender neutral. Amends sec. 2 of 1911 PA 52 (MCL 552.122). TIE BAR WITH: HJR F'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-20 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/15/2023 [HB4764 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4764-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4764
A bill to amend 1911 PA 52, entitled
"An act to allow the bringing of an action at law on a decree for alimony of a court of another state and regulating the practice in such cases,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 552.122).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2. If the defendant in an action in this state as described in section 1 shows that he or she has made proper application in the court of the other state for a reduction or any further order in relation to the alimony in the courts of the other state, the court in this state may stay the proceedings in this state on such terms as it desires to impose.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution ____ or House Joint Resolution F (request no. 00367'23) of the 102nd Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.
