Have you faced eviction or debt collection in Michigan and got a default judgment? (This means you missed court and the judge decided the case without you.)

Were you evicted by the sheriff and never went to court?

Have you had money taken from your paycheck, bank account, or tax refund for an unpaid debt?

We want to hear about your experience to try to make the process more fair. Get a $20 gift card for a 30-minute interview. Your personal details will stay private in our reports.

Click the link below to fill out the interest form.

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Do-It-Yourself Request for Interpreter

If you don't speak or understand English very well, you can ask the court for an interpreter. Use this tool to prepare a form to ask the court to get an interpreter for you. You can also use this tool to prepare the form you use to ask someone to review the court’s denial of your request for an interpreter. You will go to the Law Help Interactive website to do this.  After you answer the questions, your finished form will be ready to print.

If you want blank versions of these forms to fill in on your own, you can download a copy from the Michigan One Court of Justice website. For the Request and Order for Interpreter form, there is an English-only(link is external) version, and there are bi-lingual versions of the form in Arabic(link is external); Chinese (simplified)(link is external); Korean(link is external); Serbo-Croatian(link is external); Spanish(link is external); and Vietnamese(link is external).

For the Review of Request for Interpreter and Order form, there is an English-only(link is external) version, and there are bi-lingual versions of the form in Arabic(link is external); Chinese (simplified(link is external)); Korean(link is external); Serbo-Croatian(link is external); Spanish(link is external); and Vietnamese(link is external).

Our forms are always free. You will leave Michigan Legal Help and go to our partner site to create forms. The LawHelp Interactive website asks for an optional donation. You do not need to pay anything.

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