722.1105 Child-custody law or determination of foreign country.
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722.1105 Child-custody law or determination of foreign country.
Sec. 105.
(1)A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as a state of the United States for the purposes of applying articles 1 and 2.
(2)Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a child-custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this act must be recognized and enforced under article 3.
(3)A court of this state need not apply this act if the child-custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights.
History: 2001, Act 195 , Eff. Apr. 1, 2002