Holiday Hours
The Wayne County Clerk’s Office will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 through Monday, Jan. 3 and will re-open Tuesday, Jan. 4. Open Dec. 28, 29 and 30 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will be: Circuit Court Civil Filings (Rm. 201) and Family Filings and Personal Protection Orders (Rm. 928) located in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center; Criminal Division in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice; Juvenile Division in the Lincoln Hall of Justice. Filings for Department of Human Services and Juvenile Assessment Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. only.
The Office of the City Clerk (200 CAYMC) and the City Clerk Archives and Records Division (65) Cadillac Tower, Ste. 1600) will shut down for the holiday beginning Monday, Dec. 20 through Monday, Jan. 3. The City Clerk offices will reopen during its regular business hours on Wednesday, Jan. 5. (Tuesday, Jan. 4, is a budget-required furlough day.)
The Wayne County Probate Court will close for the holiday season at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23 and reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 8 a.m.
The Wayne County Probate Court will be open Dec. 28, 29, and 30, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to accept pleadings, and to conduct mental health and emergency hearings.
In observance of the 2010 Holiday Season, the 36th District Court will be closed to the public on Friday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 27, Friday, Dec. 31, and Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Only Criminal Arraignments will be conducted.
The Third Circuit Court Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions will be closed Friday, Dec. 24 and Mondqy, Dec. 27 in observance of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Wednesday, Dec. 29, and Thursday, Dec. 30, the court will be open for essential services only, including criminal arraignments, probation violation, failure to appear warrants, personal protection orders, parental waivers, and other emergency civil and family division matters. The County Clerk’s Office will be open to accept civil and domestic relations pleadings and new case filings from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on those days.
The court will be closed on Friday, Dec. 31 and Monday, Jan. 3 in observance of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 4.
The emergency procedure that is published in the Detroit Legal News every Friday should be followed or any after-hour emergency matter.
The Michigan Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the State Court Administrative Office will be closed for the holidays on Thursday, December 23; Friday, December 24; Thursday, December 30; and Friday, December 31.
The Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and SCAO will be open on Monday, December 27; Tuesday, December 28; and Wednesday, December 29.
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The work of Daniel Fenech, a cartoonist for The Detroit Legal News and its network of legal newspapers, has been selected to be included in the “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2010,” a book published by Pelican Publishing and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
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