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You may submit Income Tax Garnishment writ requests to participating Michigan courts.
You may submit Income Tax Garnishment writ requests to participating Michigan courts.
- Under penalty of law, you must be authorized to represent the plaintiff
- If you have a specially-formatted file, it can be used for input
- Payment can be made by Credit Card or eCheck (e.g., for large sums), but for eCheck you must first be preauthorized by the court
- See About for more details. Instructions also provide walk-through help.

Court	Phone	Address	Email
Detroit D36	1-313-965-8624	421 Madison Ave STE 216 Detroit, MI 48226	garnit@36thdistrictcourt.org
Southfield D46	1-248-796-5870	26000 Evergreen Southfield, MI 48076	GarnIT46th@cityofsouthfield.com

Court

Phone

Address

Detroit D36

1-313-965-8624

421 Madison Ave STE 216 Detroit, MI 48226

garnit@36thdistrictcourt.org

Southfield D46

1-248-796-5870

26000 Evergreen Southfield, MI 48076

GarnIT46th@cityofsouthfield.com

You may submit Income Tax Garnishment writ requests to participating Michigan courts.

Who can submit? Under penalty of law, you must be authorized to represent the plaintiff.
What does GarnIT produce? For each batch of requests, it produces Treasury and defendant PDFs containing MC52's - Request and Writ for Garnishment. It also provides payment confirmation.
How is the input data provided? You can choose to enter writ requests using normal data entry, or through a specially-formatted batch input file.
What are the options for paying the filing fee for this service? Payment can be made by Credit Card or eCheck (e.g., for large sums), but for eCheck you must first be preauthorized by the court.
What to do when GarnIT rejects your case/data? Verify the values you provided exactly match the plaintiff's copy of the complaint and judgment. The best option to do this is to use GarnIT's 'Pull Case Data' feature. If you believe the data in the court's case management system is incorrect, send an email to the court explaining the problem (include the GarnIT submission number and any error message) and what data may need correcting. Attach a scanned copy of the plaintiff's judgment/complaint as proof as directed below. Please see following to handle specific errors:
- For Errors with Judgment not on file (002), 21 days have not elapsed since judgment (003), Judgment amount is zero (007), Invalid plaintiff attorney bar number (011), and Invalid judgment amount (012), send both the complaint and the judgment.
- Bankruptcy stay has been filed (004): Follow the order of the bankruptcy court. If the bankruptcy order is no longer in effect, provide the court with a copy of the notice as proof.
- Defendant / Plaintiff name or address is invalid or incomplete (006/010/013-016): Check the plaintiff's copy of the complaint against the plaintiff's copy of the judgment and, if filing bulk with GarnIT, with the upload file. Also, if names or addresses have been legally changed since the judgment was entered, before a garnishment can be issued the plaintiff must file a notice with the court asking for the case to be updated.
- Stale judgment (008): If the judgment has not been renewed by filing an affidavit or a motion or complaint for renewal with the court before the judgment expired, garnishment is not available. If, however, the plaintiff has been actively collecting on the judgment, the plaintiff must go to the court with proof of payments collected on the judgment within 10 years of the judgment date.
What if I received payment confirmation from GarnIT, but no MC52 PDF? In this rare scenario, first attempt to retrieve the MC52 PDF by using the 'Paid Submission' link. If you are unable or GarnIT will not reissue the PDFs, visit or email the court and provide a copy of the payment receipt email sent by CEPAS, a copy of the successful writ request email sent by GarnIT, a manually completed MC52, and an explanation of the problem encountered.

If you have additional questions, please contact the court.

Users can choose to enter their writ requests using normal data entry, or through a batch input file.

Batch input files must be TXT, and specially-formatted as described below. Every line in the file must be exactly 184 characters in length.

All values:

Must be capitalized (e.g., JONES not Jones)
Must be left-justified, except amount fields are right-justified
Are required unless an exception is noted below

Note that on the "Input Writ Requests via File" screen, you can click on the "Pull Case Data" link to pull basic data from the court to help complete/verify your input file.

Columns	Field Name	Length	Description
One Header Record of this format:
1	Record Identifier	1	Must be “H”
2-5	Writ Request Count	4	Writ requests being submitted in this file. Example: if there are two Detail Records, this is “ 2”. Value must be right-justified. Must not exceed 500.
6-16	Total Offset Amount	11	Total of all the Offset Amount fields from the Detail Records. Digits only. Example: $345.12 is represented as “ 34512”.
17-25	Submitting Agency FE Number	9	Hyphens or dashes should not be included within the value.
26-55	Submitting Agency Name	30	Self-explanatory.
56-183	Filler	128	SPACES.
184	End of line	1	Must be “X”
Up to 500 Detail Records of this format:
1	Record Identifier	1	Must be “D”
2-11	Case Number	10	Case Number on file with the court.
12-48	Plaintiff Name	37	Format for person: Last/First/Initial Example: SMITH/BOB/H Format for business: CompanyName// Example: ABC COMPANY LLC// Must match EXACTLY the case record on file with the court and must not exceed 37 characters (including slashes). If Plaintiff Name is a business and is 36 characters or more in length, shorten to 35 characters and add two slashes.
49-57	Plaintiff ID	9	SSN or FE Number. Required if payee is Plaintiff.
58-94	Defendant Name	37	Format for person: Last/First/Initial Example: DOE/JOHN/P Format for business: CompanyName// Example: ABC COMPANY LLC// One defendant per record, e.g., no spouse name tacked on. Must match EXACTLY the case record on file with the court and must not exceed 37 characters (including slashes). If Defendant Name is a business and is 36 characters or more in length, shorten to 35 characters and add two slashes.
95-103	Defendant SSN	9	SSN of the liable individual.
104-112	Plaintiff Attorney FE Number	9	Required if payee is attorney. Omit all suffixes and prefixes. Hyphens or dashes should not be included within the value.
113-118	Plaintiff Attorney Bar Number	6	Must not include the letter “P” and must match EXACTLY the case record on file with the court.
119	Payee Designator	1	1 = Plaintiff OR 2 = Attorney
120-129	Submitter Reference	10	Optional value to correlate the Writ Request with the Submitter's file system. Appears for reference purposes in the MC-52 PDF generated by GarnIT, under the Plaintiff Signature field.
130-140	Judgment Amount	11	The Judgment Amount on file with the court
141-151	Total judgment interest accrued to date	11	Self-explanatory. Digits only. Example: $345.12 is represented as “ 34512”.
152-162	Total post-judgment costs accrued to date	11	Self-explanatory. Digits only. Example: $345.12 is represented as “ 34512”.
163-173	Total post-judgment payments made and credits to date	11	Self-explanatory. Digits only. Example: $345.12 is represented as “ 34512”.
174-184	Offset Amount	11	This is equivalent to the MC-52 form field “amount of the unsatisfied judgment now due (including interest and costs)”. It must be greater than $10.00. It must equal the sum of “Judgment amount”, “Total judgment interest accrued to date” and “Total post-judgment costs accrued to date” minus “Total post-judgment payments made and credits to date”. Digits only. Example: $345.12 is represented as “ 34512”.

Note that any line with an asterisk (*) in column 1 will be considered a comment and will be ignored.

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