June 7, 2018, Introduced by Senator EMMONS and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 288, entitled
"Probate code of 1939,"
by amending section 60 of chapter X (MCL 710.60), as amended by
2006 PA 352.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 60. (1) After the entry of an order of adoption, if the
adoptee's name is changed, the adoptee shall be known and called by
the new name. The person or persons adopting the adoptee then
become the parent or parents of the adoptee under the law as though
the adopted person had been born to the adopting parents and are
liable for all the duties and entitled to all the rights of
parents.
(2) After entry of the order of adoption, there is no
distinction between the rights and duties of natural progeny and
adopted persons, and the adopted person becomes an heir at law of
the adopting parent or parents and an heir at law of the lineal and
collateral kindred of the adopting parent or parents. After entry
of
the order of adoption, except as provided in section 2114(2)
2119 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386,
MCL
700.2114, 700.2119, an adopted child is no longer an heir at
law of a parent whose rights have been terminated under this
chapter or chapter XIIA or the lineal or collateral kindred of that
parent, nor is an adopted adult an heir at law of a person who was
his or her parent at the time the order of adoption was entered or
the lineal or collateral kindred of that person, except that a
right, title, or interest that has vested before entry of the final
order of adoption is not divested by that order.
(3) This section does not prohibit the filing of an action or
entry of an order for grandparenting time as provided in section 7b
of the child custody act of 1970, 1970 PA 91, MCL 722.27b.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. 1056
of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.