Sec. 2. Unless otherwise ordered by a court order, the parents of an unemancipated minor are equally entitled to the custody, control, services and earnings of the minor, but if 1 parent provides, to the exclusion of the other parent, for the maintenance and support of the minor, that parent has the paramount right to control the services and earnings of the minor.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.2
Unemancipated minors; parental rights
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case DeBoer v. Schmidt (1993)
Most recently applied in 322 Mich. App. 205 - Sims v. Verbrugge (October 2017)
1968, Act 293, Eff
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