Sec. 103.

As used in this act:

(a) “Income” includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under this state’s law.

(b) “Income withholding order” means legal process directed to an obligor’s employer or other debtor to withhold support from the obligor’s income.

(c) “Initiating state” means a state from which a proceeding is forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for forwarding to a responding state under this act or a law or procedure substantially similar to this act, the uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act, or the revised uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act, 1952 PA 8, MCL 780.151 to 780.183.

(d) “Initiating tribunal” means the authorized tribunal in an initiating state.

(e) “Issuing state” means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.

(f) “Issuing tribunal” means the tribunal that issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.

(g) “Law” includes decisional and statutory law, and rules and regulations having the force of law.

(h) “L.E.I.N” means the law enforcement information network administered under the L.E.I.N. policy council act of 1974, 1974 PA 163, MCL 28.211 to 28.216.

(i) “Obligee” means any of the following:

(i) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order has been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been rendered.

(ii) A state or political subdivision to which the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or that has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee.

(iii) An individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual’s child.

(j) “Obligor” means an individual about whom 1 of the following is true, or the estate of a decedent about whom 1 of the following was true before the individual’s death:

(i) The individual owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support.

(ii) The individual is alleged, but has not been adjudicated, to be a child’s parent.

(iii) The individual is liable under a support order.

History: 1996, Act 310, Eff. June 1, 1997 ;– Am. 1998, Act 65, Imd. Eff. Apr. 27, 1998