Rule 37 . Assignment, transfer and tracking of cases.

1. Court clerk’s responsibilities. (a) When a case within the jurisdiction of the family division is filed, the court clerk shall determine whether other cases involving the same parties or their children were or are before the family division of the court. (b) All cases involving any of the same parties or their children shall be assigned to the original department that first dealt with the parties. 2. Except as provided in subsection 1 above, the court clerk shall randomly assign all new cases among the departments of the family division. 3. If all family division judges are disqualified or preempted from a case, the chief judge of the district court shall assign the case to another district judge in compliance with Rule 2(3).