Terms Used In Michigan Laws 552.2502

  • Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as defined by the support and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Obligee: means 1 or more 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 or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • 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) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Support enforcement agency: means a public official or governmental entity or private agency authorized to do 1 or more of the following:
  •   (i) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  • Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Michigan Laws 552.2102
  •   (1) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor‘s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.
      (2) The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
      (3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) and section 503, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order that specify the following:
      (a) The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child-support, stated as a sum certain.
      (b) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded.
      (c) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor’s employment.
      (d) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee‘s attorney, stated as sums certain.
      (e) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.
      (4) An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to the following:
      (a) The employer’s fee for processing an income-withholding order.
      (b) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor’s income.
      (c) The times within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment.