Probate Court

For a full list of all Michigan Probate Courts including website links and contact information, click HERE.

To search public records on file in the Cheboygan County Probate Court, click HERE.

“Please be advised that certain case types are not public cases and, therefore, are not available for public searches.  Those include, but are not limited to, juvenile delinquency matters, neglect/abuse matters and adoption matters.   Effective April 1, 2022, date of birth, driver’s license numbers, state issued personal identification card numbers, passport numbers and financial account numbers are considered protected personal identifying information (PPII) and will not be available to the public”

Probate & Family Court Jurisdiction

Probate and Family Court jurisdiction includes the following:

• Estates (supervised, unsupervised, and small)
• Guardianships and Conservatorships for minors, legally incapacitated and developmentally disabled persons
• Mental health proceedings
• Juvenile offenses
• Abuse and neglect of children
• Personal protection orders
• Name changes
• Adoptions
• Marriages
• Parental Consent Waivers
• Emancipation of minors
• Divorce and separate maintenance
• Paternity
• Child custody
• Parenting time
• Child support (MiCASE)
• Advance Direct Proceedings (durable power of attorney, patient advocate, do not resuscitate, and Michigan Dignified Death Act)
• Lost instruments
• Support of poor persons
• Kidney donation by minor
• Uniform transfers to minors act proceedings
• Drain appeals
• Health threats to others
• Wrongful death settlements
• Civil actions involving an estate, a ward, or trust (property rights, partition, specific performance, gifts, constructive trust, and contract proceedings)
• Disappeared heirs
• Establishing death in unusual circumstances
• Will and trust depository
• Trust proceedings
• Protective orders
• Estate tax apportionment
• Fiduciary accounts

The Probate Judge also serves on the county election commission and appoints local members of the Soldier Relief Commission, County Tax Allocation Board and the State Boundary Commission.

For Tribal Court information, see HERE.

For Department of Human Services, see HERE.

Related Forms

Search additional forms HERE.

Reports

Annual Report

Five Year Report (2003-2007)

Cheboygan Community Resources

Probate Judge

Office

870 South Main St, Room 212
Cheboygan, MI 49721
(231) 627-8823
Fax: (231) 627-8868

Hours

 Additional Staff

Deputy Probate Register
Jessica Carter
jcarter@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8871

Juvenile Register
Becky Noel
bnoel@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8876

Registrar of Probate/Family Court Administrator
Kim Chimner
kimc@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8875

Director Juvenile Services
Kyle Culbertson
kyle@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8812

Intensive Probation Officer/Director of Compass Academy
Megan Fenlon
megan@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8862

Intensive Probation Officer/Assistant Director of Compass Academy
Terry McNitt
tmcnitt@cheboygancounty.net

Intensive Probation Officer
Cynthia Ashbaugh
cindy@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8837

Deputy Probate/Juvenile Register
Shani Johnson
sjohnson@cheboygancounty.net
(231) 627-8824