Section 600.846 - Removal of action or proceeding to probate court. - Michigan Statutes

REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961

600.846 Removal of action or proceeding to probate court.

Sec. 846.

In an action or proceeding pending in any other court of this state of which the probate court and the other court have concurrent jurisdiction, the judge of the other court, upon motion of a party and after a finding and order on the jurisdictional issue, may by order remove the action or proceeding to the probate court. If the action or proceeding is removed to the probate court, the judge of the other court shall forward to the probate court the original of all papers in the action or proceeding and thereafter proceedings shall not be had before the other court, except by appeal or review provided by law or supreme court rule, and the action or proceeding shall be prosecuted in the probate court as a probate court proceeding.

History: Add. 1978, Act 543, Eff. July 1, 1979 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 70, Eff. Sept. 1, 1989