Companion ruleset
Michigan Court Rules, Chapter 2: Civil Procedure →
Michigan Court Rules — Chapter 3: Special Proceedings and Actions
169 rules across 10 subchapters · Cited as MCR 3.206
Garnishment, divorce, custody, personal protection orders, adoption, and every child protective and delinquency proceeding in Michigan run under Chapter 3 — not under the civil rules at Chapter 2. The Michigan Court Rules are one continuously numbered body, so MCR 3.206 and MCR 2.116 sit in the same rulebook, but Chapter 3 supplies the procedures the civil rules never needed: a friend of the court enforcement scheme, a domestic violence screening protocol, an ex parte order that expires on its own terms, and a juvenile code with seventy-five rules of its own. Chapter 3 also says which civil rules still apply, and when.
Subchapter 3.000 — General Provisions
Cited as MCR 3.001 · 2 rules
Subchapter 3.100 — Debtor-Creditor
Cited as MCR 3.101 · 7 rules
Subchapter 3.200 — Domestic Relations Actions
Cited as MCR 3.201 · 25 rules
- 3.201 Applicability of Rules
- 3.202 Capacity to Sue
- 3.203 Service of Notice and Court Documents in Domestic Relations Cases
- 3.204 Proceedings Affecting Children
- 3.205 Prior and Subsequent Orders and Judgments Affecting Minors
- 3.206 Initiating a Case
- 3.207 Ex Parte, Temporary, and Protective Orders
- 3.208 Friend of the Court
- 3.209 Suspension of Enforcement and Dismissal
- 3.210 Hearings and Trials
- 3.211 Judgments and Orders
- 3.212 Postjudgment Transfer of Domestic Relations Cases
- 3.213 Postjudgment Motions and Enforcement
- 3.214 Actions Under Uniform Acts
- 3.215 Domestic Relations Referees
- 3.216 Domestic Relations Mediation
- 3.217 Actions Under the Paternity Act
- 3.218 Friend of the Court Records; Access
- 3.219 Dissemination of a Professional Report
- 3.221 Hearings on Support and Parenting Time Enforcement Act Bench Warrants
- 3.222 Uniform Collaborative Law Act Process and Agreements
- 3.223 Summary Proceeding for Entry of Consent Judgment or Order
- 3.224 Friend of the Court Alternative Dispute Resolution
- 3.229 Filing Confidential Materials
- 3.230 Actions Under the Summary Support and Paternity Act
Subchapter 3.300 — Extraordinary Writs
Cited as MCR 3.301 · 7 rules
Subchapter 3.400 — Proceedings Involving Real Property
Cited as MCR 3.401 · 6 rules
Subchapter 3.500 — Representative Actions
Cited as MCR 3.501 · 3 rules
Subchapter 3.600 — Miscellaneous Proceedings
Cited as MCR 3.601 · 15 rules
- 3.601 Public Nuisances
- 3.602 Arbitration
- 3.603 Interpleader
- 3.604 Bonds
- 3.605 Collection of Penalties, Fines, Forfeitures, and Forfeited Recognizances
- 3.606 Contempts Outside Immediate Presence of Court
- 3.607 Proceedings to Restore Lost Records or Documents in Courts of Record
- 3.611 Voluntary Dissolution of Corporations
- 3.612 Winding Up of Corporation Whose Term or Charter Has Expired
- 3.613 Change of Name
- 3.614 Health Threats to Others
- 3.615 Parental Rights Restoration Act Proceedings
- 3.616 Proceeding to Determine Continuation of Voluntary Foster Care Services.
- 3.617 Delayed Registration of Birth
- 3.618 Emancipation of Minor
Subchapter 3.700 — Personal Protection and Extreme Risk Protection Proceedings
Cited as MCR 3.701 · 17 rules
- 3.701 Applicability of Rules; Forms
- 3.702 Definitions
- 3.703 Commencing a Personal Protection Action
- 3.704 Dismissal
- 3.705 Issuance of Personal Protection Orders
- 3.706 Orders
- 3.707 Modification, Termination, or Extension of Order
- 3.708 Contempt Proceedings for Violation of Personal Protection Orders
- 3.709 Appeals
- 3.715 Definitions
- 3.716 Commencing an Extreme Risk Protection Action
- 3.717 Dismissals
- 3.718 Issuing Extreme Risk Protection Orders
- 3.719 Orders
- 3.720 Modification, Termination, or Extension of Order
- 3.721 Contempt Proceedings for Violation of Extreme Risk Protection Order
- 3.722 Appeals
Subchapter 3.800 — Adoption
Cited as MCR 3.800 · 12 rules
- 3.800 Applicable Rules; Interested Parties; Indian Child
- 3.801 Documents, Execution
- 3.802 Manner and Method of Service
- 3.803 Financial Reports, Subsequent Orders
- 3.804 Consent and Release
- 3.805 Temporary Placements, Time for Service of Notice of Hearing to Determine Disposition of Child
- 3.806 Rehearings
- 3.807 Indian Child
- 3.808 Finalizing Adoption; Findings of Court
- 3.809 Notice Following Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
- 3.810 Transcripts for Purposes of Appeal
- 3.811 Use of Videoconferencing Technology
Subchapter 3.900 — Proceedings Involving Juveniles
Cited as MCR 3.901 · 75 rules
- 3.901 Applicability of Rules
- 3.902 Construction
- 3.903 Definitions
- 3.904 Use of Videoconferencing Technology.
- 3.905 Indian Children; Jurisdiction, Notice, Transfer, Intervention
- 3.906 Use of Restraints on a Juvenile
- 3.907 Screening Tools and Risk and Needs Assessments
- 3.911 Jury
- 3.912 Judge
- 3.913 Referees
- 3.914 Prosecuting Attorney
- 3.915 Assistance of Attorney
- 3.916 Guardian Ad Litem
- 3.917 Court Appointed Special Advocate
- 3.920 Service of Process
- 3.921 Persons Entitled to Notice
- 3.922 Pretrial Procedures in Delinquency and Child Protection Proceedings
- 3.923 Miscellaneous Procedures
- 3.924 Information Furnished on Request by Court
- 3.925 Open Proceedings; Judgments and Orders; Records Confidentiality; Destruction of Court Records; Setting Aside Adjudications
- 3.926 Transfer of Jurisdiction; Change of Venue
- 3.927 Prior Court Orders
- 3.928 Contempt of Court
- 3.929 Use of Facsimile Communication Equipment
- 3.930 Receipt and Return or Disposal of Exhibits in Juvenile Proceedings
- 3.931 Initiating Delinquency Proceedings
- 3.932 Summary Initial Proceedings
- 3.933 Acquiring Physical Control of Juvenile
- 3.934 Arranging Court Appearance; Detained Juvenile
- 3.935 Preliminary Hearing
- 3.936 Biometric Data
- 3.937 Advice of Appellate Rights
- 3.939 Case Transferred From District Court Pursuant to Subchapter 6.900
- 3.941 Pleas of Admission or No Contest
- 3.942 Trial
- 3.943 Dispositional Hearing
- 3.944 Probation Violation
- 3.945 Dispositional Review
- 3.946 Post-Dispositional Secure Detention Pending Return to Placement
- 3.947 Other Placement Review Proceedings
- 3.950 Waiver of Jurisdiction
- 3.951 Initiating Designated Proceedings
- 3.952 Designation Hearing
- 3.953 Preliminary Examination in Designated Cases
- 3.954 Trial of Designated Cases
- 3.955 Sentencing or Disposition in Designated Cases
- 3.956 Review Hearings; Probation Violation
- 3.961 Initiating Child Protective Proceedings
- 3.962 Preliminary Inquiry
- 3.963 Acquiring Physical Custody of Child
- 3.965 Preliminary Hearing
- 3.966 Other Placement Review Proceedings
- 3.967 Removal Hearing for Indian Child
- 3.970 Child Protection Mediation
- 3.971 Pleas of Admission or No Contest
- 3.972 Trial
- 3.973 Dispositional Hearing
- 3.974 Procedures for Child at Home; Petition Authorized
- 3.975 Post-dispositional Procedures: Child in Foster Care
- 3.976 Permanency Planning Hearings
- 3.977 Termination of Parental Rights
- 3.978 Post-Termination Review Hearings
- 3.979 Juvenile Guardianships
- 3.981 Minor Personal Protection Orders; Issuance; Modification; Recision; Appeal
- 3.982 Enforcement of Minor Personal Protection Orders
- 3.983 Initiation of Contempt Proceedings by Supplemental Petition
- 3.984 Apprehension of Alleged Violator
- 3.985 Preliminary Hearing
- 3.986 Pleas of Admission or No Contest
- 3.987 Violation Hearing
- 3.988 Dispositional Hearing
- 3.989 Supplemental Dispositions
- 3.991 Review of Referee Recommendations
- 3.992 Rehearings; New Trial
- 3.993 Appeals
Source: Michigan State Court Administrative Office ·
Promulgated by the Supreme Court of Michigan (Mich. Const. 1963, art. VI, § 5) ·
Current through September 1, 2026 ·
Official source ·
Recent amendments
Chapter 3 is one chapter of the single, continuously numbered Michigan Court Rules, so every rule number carries its chapter prefix (3.001 through 3.993) and the numbering leaves gaps for rules added later. Every rule listed below is in force; this chapter contains no repealed or reserved rules.
Chapter 3 is one chapter of the single, continuously numbered Michigan Court Rules, so every rule number carries its chapter prefix (3.001 through 3.993) and the numbering leaves gaps for rules added later. Every rule listed below is in force; this chapter contains no repealed or reserved rules.