Terms Used In Michigan Laws 552.626c

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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
  • Health care coverage: means a fee for service, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, or other type of private health care coverage or public health care coverage. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Insurer: means an insurer, health maintenance organization, health care corporation, or other group, plan, or entity that provides health care coverage in accordance with any of the following acts:
  (i) The public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Office of the friend of the court: means an agency created in section 3 of the friend of the court act, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  • Plan administrator: means that term as used in relation to a group health plan under section 609 of title I of the employee retirement income security act of 1974, 29 USC 1169, if the health care coverage plan of the individual who is responsible for providing a child with health care coverage is subject to that act. See Michigan Laws 552.602
  •    If the court modifies an order for health care coverage that may affect the provision of dependent health care coverage, the office of the friend of the court shall send a notice of the modification to the employer, insurer, or plan administrator.