In Michigan, fathers' rights to custody and parenting time are equal to a mother's. Family court judges decide custody using the 12 best interest factors in MCL 722.23, and the law forbids favoring either parent because of gender. The idea that mothers automatically win custody…
To modify a custody order, a parenting time order, or a child support order in Macomb County, you file a motion with the court that issued it and show either proper cause or a change of circumstances since the last order. A judge in the…
In most cases, no, not without either the other parent's consent or the court's permission. Michigan's change of domicile law (MCL 722.31) generally bars a parent who shares custody from moving a child more than 100 miles from where the child lived when the case…
Michigan courts decide spousal support, also called alimony, case by case using a set of fairness factors rather than a fixed formula. There is no calculator that spits out an amount the way child support works. A judge in the 16th Judicial Circuit Court, which…
Michigan calculates child support using the Income Shares Model, which estimates what parents would have spent on their child if the family stayed together, then divides that amount between them based on income and parenting time. The Michigan Child Support Formula runs the math through…
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