Section 552.1322 - Fees, costs, or expenses.
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 310 of 1996
552.1322 Fees, costs, or expenses.
Sec. 322.
(1) A petitioner under this act shall not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.
(2) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal shall not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state, except as provided by other law. Attorney fees may be taxed as costs and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.
(3) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under article VI, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
History: 1996, Act 310, Eff. June 1, 1997