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
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