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Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.509 (2026)

Duties of office regarding support payments providing statement of account to parties; initiating and carrying out proceedings to enforce order regarding custody, parenting time, health care coverage or support; enforcement orders entered in other state.

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FRIEND OF THE COURT ACT


Act 294 of 1982


552.509 Duties of office regarding support payments providing statement of account to parties; initiating and carrying out proceedings to enforce order regarding custody, parenting time, health care coverage or support; enforcement orders entered in other state.

Sec. 9.

    (1) The office may accept a support payment made in cash or by cashier's check or money order. If the office accepts such a payment, the office shall transmit the payment to the SDU and shall inform the payer of the SDU's location and the requirement to make payments through the SDU.

    (2) Promptly after November 3, 1999, each office shall establish and maintain the support order and account records necessary to enforce support orders and necessary to record obligations, support and fee receipt and disbursement, and related payments. Each office shall provide the SDU with access to those records and shall assist the SDU to resolve support and fee receipt and disbursement problems related to inadequate identifying information.

    (3) The office shall provide annually to each party, without charge, 1 statement of account upon request. Additional statements of account shall be provided at a reasonable fee sufficient to pay for the cost of reproduction. Statements provided under this subsection are in addition to statements provided for administrative and judicial hearings.

    (4) The office shall initiate and carry out proceedings to enforce an order in a friend of the court case regarding custody, parenting time, health care coverage, or support in accordance with this act, the support and parenting time enforcement act, and supreme court rules.

    (5) Upon request of a child support agency of another state, the office shall initiate and carry out certain proceedings to enforce support orders entered in the other state without the need to register the order as a friend of the court case in this state. The order shall be enforced using automated administrative enforcement actions authorized under the support and parenting time enforcement act.

History: 1982, Act 294, Eff. July 1, 1983 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 241, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 144, Eff. Mar. 25, 1996 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 365, Eff. Jan. 1, 1997 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 63, Eff. Aug. 10, 1998 ;-- Am. 1999, Act 150, Imd. Eff. Nov. 3, 1999 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 571, Eff. June 1, 2003 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 210, Eff. Oct. 1, 2004 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 382, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1986–2004 · leading case: People v. Monaco, 686 N.W.2d 790 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004).
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People v. Monaco, 686 N.W.2d 790 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004). “208; MCL 552.509 to 552.509a; MCL 552.511; MCL 552.”
Knisley v. Bowman, 656 F. Supp. 1540 (W.D. Mich. 1987). · cites it 2× “§ 552.509 (replacing former M.C. L.A. § 552.”
Bert v. Bert, 397 N.W.2d 270 (Mich. Ct. App. 1986). “While resolution of the procedural issues makes review of the friend of the court’s actions unnecessary, we note that, under MCL 552.509(3); MSA 25.176(9)(3), the friend of the court was required to "initiate and carry out proceedings to enforce all orders entered in a domestic…”
People v. Monaco, 686 N.W.2d 790 (Mich. Ct. App. 2004). “The FOC printout was properly admitted under this rule because it is a record of FOC activities in administering its obligation to calculate and collect child support payments.”
— Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.509(3) — 1 case
Bert v. Bert, 397 N.W.2d 270 (Mich. Ct. App. 1986). “While resolution of the procedural issues makes review of the friend of the court’s actions unnecessary, we note that, under MCL 552.509(3); MSA 25.176(9)(3), the friend of the court was required to "initiate and carry out proceedings to enforce all orders entered in a domestic…”
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