People v. Monaco’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “(1) Refusing to support wife or children as required in decree of separate maintenance or divorce or order of court — If the court orders an individual to pay support for the individual's former or current spouse, or for a child of the individual, and the individual does not pay the support in the amount or at the time stated in the order, the individual is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or by a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both. (2) This section does not apply unless the individual ordered to pay support appeared in, or received notice by personal service of, the action in which the support order was issued. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Monaco

2. “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Defendant shall pay to the Friend of the Court for the County of Macomb to be transmitted to the Plaintiff for the support and maintenance of the minor children of the parties, the sum of $43.44 per week per child, for each of the two (2) minor children ... until each of the said children have attained the age of eighteen or until further Order of this Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Monaco

3. “For an action to enforce a support order that is enforceable under the support and parenting time enforcement act, Act No. 295 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 552.601 to 552.650 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the period of limitations is 10 years from the date that the last support payment is due under the support order regardless of whether or not the last payment is made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Monaco