EDCR 5.204

(a) Except as otherwise provided by another rule or statute, or in an emergency, only the judge assigned to a case should issue orders in that case. In the absence of the judge assigned to a case, submissions in that case should be made to the first judge available in the following order:

(1) The senior, visiting, or designated judge assigned temporarily to the case, if any;

(2) The presiding judge of the family division;

(3) The chief judge of the Eighth Judicial District Court.

(b) Any order of an absent judge that is signed by another judge must conform to the record and will be deemed to be the order of the absent judge. Any nonconformity in such an order may be corrected by the absent judge after return.

(c) An order entered by a judge other than the judge assigned to the case may be enforced, reconsidered, or modified by the judge assigned to the case or by a subsequent senior, visiting, designated, presiding, or chief judge subsequently temporarily assigned to the case.

(d) When a case has been administratively reassigned or reassigned to a new judge after the retirement or other departure of the judge previously assigned to the case, the new judge assigned to the case shall be treated as the assigned judge with the authority to take any action that the judge previously assigned to the case might have taken.