478.465. Transfer of cases by local court rule, circuit court and probate division (Circuit No. 16). - Missouri Statutes

Transfer of cases by local court rule, circuit court and probatedivision (Circuit No. 16).

478.465. By local circuit court rule, the sixteenth judicialcircuit may provide for the transfer of a case pending before acircuit or associate circuit judge of a division at Independenceand of a division at Kansas City for good cause shown upon orderof such judge or of the presiding judge from a division atIndependence to a division at Kansas City, and from a division atKansas City to a division at Independence. By local circuitcourt rule, the sixteenth judicial circuit may also provide forthe transfer of cases between divisions presided over byassociate circuit judges which sit at any location within thecircuit. The judge of the probate division of the circuit courtof Jackson County if he deems it advisable or in the interest ofthe party or parties to any proceeding or controversy therein mayby his order entered of record remove and transfer the hearing ofsuch proceeding or controversy and the case records fromIndependence to Kansas City or from Kansas City to Independence,and said cause, proceeding or controversy shall be proceeded withto final settlement or conclusion at the place to which it may beremoved.

(L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Effective 1-2-79