MCL - Act 159 of 2012


REVOCATION OF PARENTAGE ACT

Act 159 of 2012

AN ACT to provide procedures to determine the parentage of children in certain circumstances; to allow acknowledgments, determinations, and judgments relating to parentage to be set aside in certain circumstances; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities; and to provide remedies.


History: 2012, Act 159, Imd. Eff. June 12, 2012 ;-- Am. 2024, Act 29, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025




The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Document Type Description
Section 722.1431 Section Short title.
Section 722.1433 Section Definitions.
Section 722.1435 Section Applicability of sections to certain actions.
Section 722.1437 Section Action for revocation of acknowledgment of parentage; filing; agreement to transfer prosecutor's responsibilities; proceeding on behalf of state; affidavit; order for blood or tissue typing or DNA identification profiling; forwarding copy of order to state registrar; vacating acknowledgment of parentage; amending birth certificate; representation.
Section 722.1438 Section Action for order determining genetic father not child's father.
Section 722.1439 Section Motion to set aside determination.
Section 722.1441 Section Determination that child born out of wedlock.
Section 722.1443 Section Court action.
Section 722.1445 Section Determination of paternity.