HOUSE BILL No. 5853


     May 30, 2000, Introduced by Reps. DeHart, Schermesser, Bovin, DeRossett and Jamnick and referred to the Committee on
Family and Children Services.


        A bill to amend 1982 PA 294, entitled

   "Friend of the court act,"

   by amending section 9 (MCL 552.509), as amended by 1998 PA 63.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 9.  (1) Except as otherwise provided in the order or

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      judgment, after a support order is entered in a domestic rela-

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      tions matter, the office shall receive all payments of support

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      orders and service fees; shall, not less than once each month,

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      record the support payments due, paid, and past due; and shall

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      disburse all support payments to the recipient of support within

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       14  5 days after the office receives each payment.  IF THE

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      OFFICE FAILS TO DISTRIBUTE A SUPPORT PAYMENT WITHIN THE TIME

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      REQUIRED BY THIS SUBSECTION, THE OFFICE SHALL INCLUDE INTEREST ON

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      THAT PAYMENT FOR EACH DAY THE MONEY IS DISTRIBUTED LATE.  THE

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      OFFICE SHALL CALCULATE THE INTEREST REQUIRED BY THIS SUBSECTION


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      AT THE RATE CERTIFIED BY THE STATE TREASURER, WHICH RATE SHALL BE

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      EQUAL TO THE AVERAGE INTEREST RATE FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS OR

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      SELECTED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS EITHER STATEWIDE, IN THE METRO

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      DETROIT AREA, OR IN DETROIT, AS PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER WITH A

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      STATEWIDE CIRCULATION.

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           (2) The office shall provide annually to each party, without

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      charge, 1 statement of account upon request.  Additional state-

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      ments of account shall be provided at a reasonable fee sufficient

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      to pay for the cost of reproduction.  Statements provided under

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      this subsection are in addition to statements provided for admin-

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      istrative and judicial hearings.

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           (3) The office shall initiate and carry out proceedings to

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      enforce an order entered in a domestic relations matter regarding

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      custody, parenting time, health care coverage, or support in

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      accordance with this act, the support and parenting time enforce-

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      ment act, and supreme court rules.

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           (4) Upon request of a child support agency of another state,

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      the office shall initiate and carry out certain proceedings to

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      enforce support orders entered in the other state without the

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      need to register the order as a domestic relations matter in this

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      state.  The order shall be enforced using automated administra-

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      tive enforcement actions authorized under the support and parent-

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      ing time enforcement act.  , 1982 PA 295, MCL 552.601 to

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      552.650. 









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