Sec. 105. (1) A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as a state of the United States for the purposes of applying articles 1 and 2. (2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a child-custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this act must be recognized and enforced under article 3. (3) A court of this state need not apply this act if the child-custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1105
Child-custody law or determination of foreign country
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 256 Mich. App. 531 - Atchison v. Atchison (2003)
Most recently applied in 326 Mich. App. 73 - Subrhamanyam Raju Nadimpali v. Padma Byrraju (October 2018)
2001, Act 195, Eff
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