(1) An order of income withholding under this act shall direct payment to be made to the office of the friend of the court or the state disbursement unit, as appropriate. The office of the friend of the court or SDU shall promptly transmit payments received pursuant to an order of income withholding based on a support order of another jurisdiction entered under this act to the agency or person designated in section 6(2)(e)(iii).
  (2) A support order entered pursuant to section 6 does not nullify and is not nullified by a support order entered by the court in this state pursuant to another law or a support order entered by a court of another state. If more than 1 support order is in effect for the support of 1 person by the same obligor, then amounts collected by income withholding and credited against an amount owing for a particular time period under any 1 order shall be credited against amounts owing for the same time period under all such orders.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 552.680

  • Agency: means the court or entity in another jurisdiction with functions similar to those assigned in this act to the office of the friend of the court and the office of child support relative to the issuance and enforcement of support orders. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • Court: means the circuit court of this state and, when the context requires, the court or entity of another jurisdiction with functions similar to those assigned in this act to the circuit court of this state relative to the issuance and enforcement of support orders. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • Income: means income as defined in section 2 of the support and parenting time enforcement act, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • Obligor: means a person required to make payments under the terms of a support order for a child, spouse, or former spouse. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • Office of the friend of the court: means an office created in section 3 of the friend of the court act, 1982 PA 294, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • Order of income withholding: means order of income withholding as defined in section 2 of the support and parenting time enforcement act, MCL 552. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • SDU: means the entity established in section 6 of the office of child support act, 1971 PA 174, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 552.673
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Support order: means an order or judgment for the support, or for the payment of arrearages on the support, of a child, spouse, or former spouse issued by a court or agency of another jurisdiction, whether interlocutory or final, whether or not prospectively or retroactively modifiable, whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, separate maintenance, paternity, guardianship, or equivalent proceeding, or otherwise. See Michigan Laws 552.673
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