Section 552.1701 - Proceeding to determine parentage.

UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 310 of 1996

552.1701 Proceeding to determine parentage.

Sec. 701.

(1) This state's tribunal may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under a support enforcement act to determine that a petitioner is a particular child's parent or to determine that a respondent is that child's parent.

(2) In a proceeding to determine parentage, the responding tribunal of this state shall apply the paternity act, Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1956, being sections 722.711 to 722.730 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, this state's procedural and substantive law, and this state's rules on choice of law.


History: 1996, Act 310, Eff. June 1, 1997