Terms Used In Michigan Laws 691.1705

  • Court: means the circuit court. See Michigan Laws 691.1681
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  (1) On granting an order confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment that conforms with the order. The judgment may be recorded, docketed, and enforced as any other judgment in a civil action.
  (2) A court may allow reasonable costs of the motion and subsequent judicial proceedings.
  (3) On request of a prevailing party to a contested judicial proceeding under section 22, 23, or 24, the court may add reasonable attorney fees and other reasonable expenses of litigation incurred in a judicial proceeding after the award is made to a judgment confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award.