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The website displays the case information entered into the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) case management system by court staff in the counties where the case files are located. The court record summaries provided by the system are all public records under Wisconsin open records law sections 19.31-19.39 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
The circuit court system is composed of 69 circuits, with 66 circuits serving a single county, and three circuits serving two counties each. [3] Buffalo and Pepin counties share a circuit, as do Florence and Forest counties, and Shawano and Menominee counties. [3] 26 circuit courts are served by a single judge. [3]
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
In 1833, all the county courts in all counties in the territory of Michigan except Wayne were abolished and replaced by one circuit court of the territory of Michigan. [2] In 1836, the state was divided into 3 circuits. The 1850 Michigan Constitution made the office of circuit court judges elected officials and set the term of office to six (6 ...
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
Each circuit court can have several divisions, including circuit, associate, small claims, probate, family, or drug court. Each division hears cases within its particular area of subject-matter jurisdiction , and jurisdiction is based on the size or type of a civil claim or the severity or type of a criminal charge.
The Court of Appeals was created in August 1978 [1] to alleviate the Wisconsin Supreme Court's rising number of appellate cases. Published Court of Appeals opinions are considered binding precedent until overruled by the Supreme Court; unpublished opinions are not. The Court hears most appeals in three-judge panels, but appeals of circuit court ...
Senior Circuit Judge William J. Bauer: inactive: 1926 1974–1994 1986–1993 1994–present Ford: 46 Senior Circuit Judge Kenneth Francis Ripple: South Bend, IN: 1943 1985–2008 — 2008–present Reagan: 49 Senior Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner: Chicago, IL: 1938 1992–2024 — 2024–present G.H.W. Bush: 55 Senior Circuit Judge David Hamilton ...