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Michigan's Land Division Act uses a "parent parcel" to determine how many times land can be split. The parent parcel is the original tract on a reference date, and its configuration on that date controls how many divisions are allowed.

Michigan's Land Division Act uses a "parent parcel" to determine how many times land can be split. The parent parcel is the original tract on a reference date, and its configuration on that date controls how many divisions are allowed.
At the center of that calculation is a concept called the parent parcel. What a parent parcel is, a parent parcel is the original tract of land used to calculate how many parcel divisions may be allowed. Under the Michigan Land Division Act, the number of allowable splits is based on how the land existed on a particular reference date.