(1) Upon the death, termination or removal of a master commissioner, all books, papers, account information, case files and other documents related to the office of master commissioner shall be immediately transferred to the circuit judge for whom the master commissioner served and immediate notice shall be given to the Administrative Office of the Courts, Department of Financial Services. In a single-judge circuit, if termination is due to the death, resignation, or permanent replacement of the circuit judge who appointed the master commissioner, said documents shall be transferred pursuant to the order of the chief regional circuit judge.

(2) The master commissioner or receiver may use any proof reduced to writing and signed by his or her predecessor, and may execute any order or judgment which it was the duty of the predecessor to have executed, and which remains unexecuted.