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Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.2704: Office of child support; duties; available proceedings; security, bond, or deposit as payment guarantee prohibited.

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  1. MI Code
  2. Chapter 552
  3. Act Act-255-of-2015

Sec. 704.

(1) In a support proceeding under this article, the office of child support of this state shall do the following:

(a) Transmit and receive applications.

(b) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.

(2) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:

(a) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order.

(b) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state.

(c) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child.

(d) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under section 708(2)(b), (d), or (i).

(e) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state.

(f) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(3) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:

(a) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state.

(b) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state.

(c) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(4) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the Convention.

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