A. Assignment of Cases. At the time of filing of a complaint, petition or other initiating pleading, the Clerk of the Court shall review the Court's records to determine whether the family involved has had any prior contact with the Fayette Family Court. If no contact is revealed, the case shall be assigned to a numerical division of the Fayette Family Court by random assignment and scheduled for further proceedings in accordance with these rules. If prior contact is revealed, the case shall be assigned to the numerical division of the Fayette Family Court which issued the first order concerning the family.

B. Assignment of Judges. Cases shall be assigned, as provided by these Rules, to the divisions of the Fayette Family Court to distribute the workload of the Court as equally as possible among the judges. The judge of one division of the Fayette Family Court may preside over and determine any case or question in any other division of the Fayette Family Court and sign any order or judgment submitted for entry when a judge of that division is sick, or absent from the county or is otherwise unavailable

C. Transfer of Cases. After a case has been assigned to a division of Fayette Family Court, the judge thereof may for good cause transfer the case by written order from that division when: (1) there has been a recusal, or (2) the case has been transferred with the judge's consent. On recusal, the Court Administrator shall make a random assignment of cases that are transferred from one division of Fayette Family Court to another division of Fayette Family Court. The Court Administrator shall file the order of transfer in the record and serve a copy upon all parties of record. Upon such transfer being made, the Clerk will make a proper endorsement upon the docket and the record.

D. Consolidation of Cases. When two (2) or more cases have been filed that may, as a matter of right, or may, in the discretion of the Court, be consolidated and such cases are pending in different divisions of the Fayette Family Court, any party to any of the cases, or the Court without motion, may have any of the cases transferred to that division of the Court in which the first of the cases was filed. If it is determined that consolidation is not proper, the judge of that division may transfer the case back to the original division.