In Michigan child support laws payments in relation to child support are routed through the Friend of the Court Bureau.
The Bureau’s Child Support Manual governs the practices in relation to child support payments.
- The guidelines prescribe the application of “Income Shares Model” based on the net income of each parent.
- The non-custodial makes child support payments, while the custodial parent is presumed to spend the payments only on the child.
- In addition to the net income of the parents, the bureau may also take the parenting time of each parent into account, in order to arrive at a final support amount.
