Why We Built This Site
Michigan uses more than one route for public court information. The County Clerk, Steven J. Woodgate, is the Circuit Court Clerk for the 50th Circuit Court and keeps its criminal, civil, and family-court files. The 91st District Court keeps its own district criminal, civil, traffic, civil-infraction, small-claims, and related records. Probate and Juvenile or Family Division have separate records functions. MiCOURT Case Search can provide a public statewide starting point, while a local clerk remains the custodian for an official case file or copy. We bring those distinct routes into a readable local guide without treating them as one database.
What You Will Find Here
The guides distinguish scheduled hearings from the case history Michigan Court Rule 8.119 describes, and they identify the local counter or public channel that fits the requested record.
- Docket guides: local explanations for criminal court dockets and civil court dockets
- Hearing information: the court schedule and the ways to confirm a setting with the court that scheduled it
- Public lookup routes: a docket search through MiCOURT Case Search, a court calendar, or the appropriate clerk
- Copies and files: a guide to court case records, including Circuit Court requests and the different District, Probate, and Juvenile routes
What We Cannot Do
This is a privately operated reference site, not a Michigan court, government office, or clerk's office. We cannot access systems reserved for court personnel or substitute for the office that controls a case.
- We cannot produce an official case history, docket, or court file
- We cannot set, change, reschedule, or verify a hearing on behalf of a court
- We cannot seal, remove, correct, or amend a court record
- We cannot issue certified copies, orders, or other official documents
- We cannot provide legal advice about a pending case, filing, or deadline
- We cannot promise that an address, fee, or schedule remains unchanged after publication
Only the clerk or court that maintains the original file can provide an official or certified record and confirm its current case history or court setting.
Search Partners
Some site pages display search tools supplied by outside providers. Those providers operate their own services, prices, results, and terms. A referral fee may be earned when a visitor follows a tool to a paid service. That relationship does not give this site access to court systems, does not make a provider's result an official record, and does not replace confirmation with the 50th Circuit Court, 91st District Court, or other originating clerk.