Michigan District Courts
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The Michigan District Courts are limited jurisdiction trial courts. There are 105 district courts in Michigan and distributed among those 105 courts there are 276 district court judges.
The courts handle:
- Civil litigation under $25,000 excluding equity and small claims under $3,000;
- Misdemeanors, ordinance violations with sentence less than one year.
- Preliminary trials on felony charges.
- Landlord/tenant or summary proceedings.
- Jury trials.[1]
Court divisions
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Footnotes
- ↑ Michigan Judicial branch overview
- ↑ In Berrien County, the Circuit, District and Probate courts have been consolidated into a single trial court with various divisions.
- ↑ The 68th District Court is no longer a separate district. It was merged in January 2016 into the state's 67th District Court.
- ↑ Michigan Trial Courts Directory (dead link)
- ↑ District Court Map
- ↑ Trial Court Directory (dead link)
