Terms Used In Michigan Laws 552.607a

  • Employer: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, or private or public corporation, the United States or a federal agency, this state or a political subdivision of this state, another state or a political subdivision of another state, or another legal entity that hires and pays an individual for his or her services. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Income: means any of the following:
  (i) Commissions, earnings, salaries, wages, and other income due or to be due in the future to an individual from his or her employer or a successor employer. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Payer: means an individual who is ordered by the circuit court to pay support. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Support: means all of the following:
  •   (i) The payment of money for a child or a spouse ordered by the circuit court, whether the order is embodied in an interim, temporary, permanent, or modified order or judgment. See Michigan Laws 552.602
       The friend of the court shall not consider a payer to have an arrearage if the payer produces documentary evidence that money has been withheld from the payer’s income in an amount equal to or greater than the amount required under the payer’s support order. This documentary evidence includes, but is not limited to, pay stubs, wage statements, or other written income information produced by the payer’s employer.