MI HB4481

Prohibits courts from awarding custody to a biological parent convicted of criminal sexual conduct under MCL 750.520a-520e and 750.520g if the child was conceived as a result of that conduct, unless both parents later cohabit and establish a mutual custodial environment.

Prohibits courts from granting parenting time to a biological parent convicted of the specified sexual conduct crimes if the child was conceived as a result, with the same cohabitation exception.

Removes the prohibition on custody or parenting time if the conviction is under MCL 750.520d(1)(a) (consensual sexual conduct between certain age groups).

Bars custody and parenting time with an offender's own child or that child's sibling without written consent from both the other parent and the child if of sufficient age, when the victim of the sexual conduct was the offender's child.

Became effective August 1, 2016 (90 days after the May 3, 2016 enactment date).