Smith v. Smith

The issue we must decide in this case is whether the Age of Majority Act1 effectively rendered as null and void the "exceptional circumstances” clause of MCL 552.17a; MSA 25.97(1). Upon dissolution of a marriage, § 17a grants the court jurisdiction to require either parent to make payments for the support of each child until the age of eighteen years, and in the case of "exceptional circumstances,” support payments may be required after a child "attains that age.”

We find that the amendments of the child support and custody statutes enacted subsequent to the passage of the Age of Majority Act,…