MI SB0284

Eliminates the requirement that written instruments conveying or mortgaging real estate executed and offered for record before April 6, 2017 must state whether male grantors, mortgagors, or other executing parties are married or single.

Allows registers of deeds to refuse recording of instruments that do not comply with marital status statement requirements for documents offered before April 6, 2017.

Permits an affidavit showing the marital status of male parties to be recorded if an instrument was previously recorded without the required marital status statement, making the affidavit and original instrument valid legal records.

Makes instruments recorded without marital status statements valid as legal records and admissible as evidence if an affidavit documenting the marital status is subsequently filed.

Deems instruments recorded without marital status statements as valid and effective 10 years after recording, even without a supplemental affidavit.