Bill Text: MI SB0518 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Family law; friend of the court; reference to the uniform interstate family support act (UIFSA); update. Amends sec. 2 of 1982 PA 294 (MCL 552.502). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4742'15
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0253'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0518 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0518-Engrossed.html
SB-0518, As Passed House, December 16, 2015
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 518
A bill to amend 1982 PA 294, entitled
"Friend of the court act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 552.502), as amended by 2009 PA 233.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Alternative dispute resolution" means a process
established under section 13 by which the parties are assisted in
voluntarily formulating an agreement to resolve a dispute
concerning child custody or parenting time that arises from a
domestic relations matter.
(b) "Bureau" means the state friend of the court bureau
created in section 19.
(c) "Centralizing enforcement" means the process authorized
under section 10 of the office of child support act, 1971 PA 174,
MCL 400.240.
(d) "Chief judge" means the following:
(i) The circuit judge in a judicial circuit having only 1
circuit judge.
(ii) The chief judge of the circuit court in a judicial
circuit having 2 or more circuit judges.
(e) "Citizen advisory committee" means a citizen friend of the
court advisory committee established as provided in section 4.
(f) "Consumer reporting agency" means a person that, for
monetary fees or dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis,
regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling
or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on
consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third
parties, and that uses any means or facility of interstate commerce
for the purpose of preparing or furnishing consumer reports. As
used in this subdivision, "consumer report" means that term as
defined in section 603 of the fair credit reporting act, 15 USC
1681a.
(g) "County board" means the county board of commissioners in
the county served by the office. If a judicial circuit includes
more than 1 county, action required to be taken by the county board
means action by the county boards of commissioners for all counties
composing that circuit.
(h) "Court" means the circuit court.
(i) "Current employment" means employment within 1 year before
a friend of the court request for information.
(j) "Custody or parenting time order violation" means an
individual's act or failure to act that interferes with a parent's
right to interact with his or her child in the time, place, and
manner established in the order that governs custody or parenting
time between the parent and the child and to which the individual
accused of interfering is subject.
(k) "De novo hearing" means a new judicial consideration of a
matter previously heard by a referee.
(l) "Department" means the department of health and human
services.
(m) "Domestic relations matter" means a circuit court
proceeding as to child custody, parenting time, child support, or
spousal support, that arises out of litigation under a statute of
this state, including, but not limited to, the following:
(i) 1846 RS 84, MCL 552.1 to 552.45.
(ii) The family support act, 1966 PA 138, MCL 552.451 to
552.459.
(iii) The child custody act of 1970, 1970 PA 91, MCL 722.21 to
722.31.
(iv) 1968 PA 293, MCL 722.1 to 722.6.
(v) The paternity act, 1956 PA 205, MCL 722.711 to 722.730.
(vi) The revised uniform reciprocal enforcement of support
act, 1952 PA 8, MCL 780.151 to 780.183.
(vii) The uniform interstate family support act ,
1996 PA 310,
MCL
552.1101 to 552.1901.(2015).
(n) "Friend of the court" means the person serving under
section 21(1) or appointed under section 23 as the head of the
office of the friend of the court.
(o) "Friend of the court case" means a domestic relations
matter that an office establishes as a friend of the court case as
required
under section 5a. The term "friend of the court case",
when
used in a provision of this act, is not effective until on and
after
December 1, 2002.
(p) "Income" means that term as defined in section 2 of the
support and parenting time enforcement act, MCL 552.602.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January
1, 2016.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless House Bill No. 4742 of the 98th Legislature is enacted into
law.
