Terms Used In Michigan Laws 552.625h

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Support order: means an order entered by the circuit court for the payment of support, whether or not a sum certain. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  •   (1) If an action is filed in circuit court within the time limit prescribed in section 25f, the circuit court shall review the matter de novo. The action is governed by this section and the Michigan court rules. The circuit court review is not limited to mistakes of fact.
      (2) All of the following apply in an action governed by this section:
      (a) The circuit court shall only address the issues of the propriety of the levy and whether the levy amount is correct.
      (b) The circuit court shall not admit evidence or consider an issue that is related to custody, parenting time, or the amount of support under a support order unless that evidence is related to the levy against a payer‘s financial assets, money to be paid, or compensation.
      (c) The circuit court shall not modify a support order. A court finding regarding a monthly or past due support amount does not modify the underlying support order.