Michigan Wayne County Make-Up Parenting Time Policy is a set of rules and regulations designed to ensure that parents in Wayne County, Michigan have equitable access to their children. The policy provides for make-up parenting time when a parent has missed regular parenting time due to illness, work obligations, or other extenuating circumstances. It also encourages the use of shared parenting time. The policy includes two types of make-up parenting time: Make-up parenting time after a missed visit, and make-up parenting time for a double visitation weekend. Make-up parenting time after a missed visit is for those occasions when a parent is unable to attend their regularly scheduled parenting time due to illness, work, or other circumstances. The make-up parenting time must be completed within two weeks of the missed visit and must be equal to the missed visit. Make-up parenting time for a double visitation weekend is for those occasions when a parent is unable to attend their regularly scheduled parenting time due to illness, work, or other circumstances. The make-up parenting time must be completed within two weeks of the double visitation weekend and must be equal to the amount of time the parent was originally scheduled to have. Michigan Wayne County Make-Up Parenting Time Policy is designed to ensure that parents have equitable access to their children and to encourage the use of shared parenting time.
Michigan Wayne County Make-Up Parenting Time Policy
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Under Michigan law, children have a right to parenting time with the non-custodial parent unless the other parent demonstrates, by clear and convincing evidence, that visitation would endanger the child's physical, mental, or emotional health. (Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.27a (3).)
When Can a Child Refuse Visitation in Michigan? Until children turn 18 or become legally emancipated, they don't have the right to refuse visitation that's required under a court's custody order. Both children and their parents must comply the order.
A common 70/30 schedule in Michigan, the every weekend schedule, has children visit the noncustodial parent one evening per week, plus every other weekend. In the alternating weekends schedule, children spend every other weekend with the noncustodial parent in an 80/20 division of parenting time.
In Michigan, the law provides that both parents have an equal right to custody of their child or children. If you, the biological father, and the child's other parent, cannot agree on who should have custody, the Court will decide based on what is in the child's best interests.
You cannot deny parenting time in Michigan without a court order. If you refuse parenting time to the other parent, you may be held in contempt of Court. Proper cause is always needed if you are denying parenting time in Michigan.
Under Michigan law, a child does not legally get to decide where she lives until she is 18. The reasonable preference of a child is only one factor of the 12 best interest factors.
(a) The child has been deserted under either of the following circumstances: (i) The child's parent is unidentifiable, has deserted the child for 28 or more days, and has not sought custody of the child during that period.
A common 70/30 schedule in Michigan, the every weekend schedule, has children visit the noncustodial parent one evening per week, plus every other weekend. In the alternating weekends schedule, children spend every other weekend with the noncustodial parent in an 80/20 division of parenting time.