MI HB5473

Allows courts to refuse orders setting aside paternity determinations or revoking acknowledgments of parentage if doing so would not be in the child's best interests, requiring courts to state reasons on the record.

Courts may consider factors including the presumed father's conduct, length of time on notice of potential non-paternity, the father-child relationship, the child's age, and potential harm to the child when deciding whether to enter such orders.

Requires parties to undergo blood, tissue typing, or DNA testing to assist courts in making paternity determinations, though results are not binding on the court.

Prohibits alleged fathers convicted of criminal sexual conduct (MCL 750.520b to 750.520e) from bringing paternity actions, and bars actions when a child is under court jurisdiction with a pending petition to terminate parental rights unless the court finds it in the child's best interests.

Effective March 17, 2015.