To prepare for future development work and to align with MiFILE, software updates regarding party types will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS), effective Monday, June 30, 2025.
Updates include:
- Work with Party Types (PYY) screen will have a new Effective Date field for party types. Party type codes can be inactivated by JIS and reused with next effective date. See screen capture below.
- Court users will no longer have security to make changes on PYY. If a user attempts to use options: 2=Change, 4=Delete, F6=Create, an error message will display.
- When adding a new party to a case, the application will evaluate the file date and only display valid party types with an effective date equal to, or greater than, the file date.
- Reports: Warrant List, Case List, Probate Fiduciary Reports and Probate Guardian List. When F4 (Prompt) is used on the Party Type field, all party types will display including those with inactive dates, in the event a user needs to select inactive parties when generating the aforementioned reports.
If changes to Party Types are desired, please contact the JIS Support Center at https://support.courts.michigan.gov/portal. All requests will be evaluated and assessed.