Duties & Responsibilities
The primary areas over which the Probate Court has jurisdiction are:
- Trust proceedings
- Matters relating to the estate of a deceased person
- Guardianships and conservatorships
- Persons found to be mentally ill or developmentally disabled
- Condemnation and drain cases
- Juvenile delinquent cases
- Dependent and Neglect cases
- Adoptions
- Name changes
- Secret Marriages
- Emancipation
- Filing of wills and Codicils for safekeeping
- Acknowledgements of Paternity
- Recall petitions and hearings for such matters as school board members, township officials
- Clinton County Youth Home and the Child Care Fund