Section 691.1132 - Definitions.
UNIFORM FOREIGN-COUNTRY MONEY JUDGMENTS RECOGNITION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 20 of 2008
691.1132 Definitions.
Sec. 2.
As used in this act:
(a) "Foreign country" means a government other than any of the following:
(i) The United States.
(ii) A state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States.
(iii) A federally recognized Indian tribe whose tribal court judgments are entitled to recognition and presumed to be valid under a court rule adopted by the supreme court.
(iv) Any other government with regard to which the decision in this state as to whether to recognize a judgment of that government's courts is initially subject to determination under the full faith and credit clause of the United States constitution.
(b) "Foreign-country judgment" means the judgment of a court of a foreign country.
History: 2008, Act 20, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008