(A) The court ordering a change of venue or transfer of jurisdiction shall enter all necessary orders pertaining to the certification and transfer of the action to the court to which the action is transferred on a form approved by the State Court Administrative Office.
Rule 2.226.Change of Venue; Transfer of Jurisdiction; Orders
Current through May 1, 2026 · Last verified July 6, 2026
In one sentenceRule 2.226 requires every venue-change or jurisdiction-transfer order to use a standard state form with enough information for the receiving court to know why the case was transferred, and gives both courts a seven-business-day window to fix a rejected transfer.
Full Text of Rule 2.226
(B) If a change of venue or transfer of jurisdiction order is not prepared as required under subrule (A), and the order lacks the information necessary for the receiving court to determine under which rule the transfer was ordered, the clerk of the receiving court shall refuse to accept the transfer and shall prepare a notice of refusal on a form approved by the State Court Administrative Office and return the case to the transferring court for a proper order within seven business days of receipt of the transfer order.
(C) If a transferring court receives a refusal to accept a transferred case under subrule (B), the transferring court shall prepare a proper order in accordance with subrule (A) and retransfer the case within seven business days.
Amendment History
Michigan tracks the orders that adopt and amend its Court Rules in a separate administrative record rather than printing a history note beneath each rule in the compiled rules text reproduced here. The text above is verified current through the source’s own May 1, 2026 update; for the full order-by-order history of this rule, see the Michigan Supreme Court’s rules and orders page.
Plain-English Summary
A court ordering a change of venue or a transfer of jurisdiction must enter all the necessary certification and transfer orders on a form approved by the State Court Administrative Office. If that order is missing the information the receiving court needs to tell which rule justified the transfer, the receiving clerk refuses to accept it, prepares a notice of refusal on the matching approved form, and sends the case back to the transferring court within seven business days. The transferring court then has seven business days of its own to fix the order and send the case back again.
Frequently Asked Questions
What form does a court use to transfer a case to another court?
A standard form approved by the State Court Administrative Office, which must include enough information for the receiving court to tell which rule the transfer was made under.
What happens if the receiving court gets an incomplete transfer order?
The clerk refuses the transfer, prepares a notice of refusal, and sends the case back to the transferring court within seven business days.
How quickly must the transferring court fix a rejected order?
Within seven business days of receiving the refusal notice, it must prepare a proper order and retransfer the case.
Source & verification. The rule text is reproduced verbatim from the
official Michigan Court Rules (MCR 2.226). Prescribed by the Supreme Court of Michigan (Mich. Const. 1963, art. VI, § 5). The plain-English summary is original and written by us. Last verified July 6, 2026. ·
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