Rule 42 Consolidation; Separate Trials
TITLE VI. TRIALS
Rule Text
(a) CONSOLIDATION. The court may consolidate domestic relations actions and other cases before the court relating to the same subject matter or parties or members of the same family or household. On consolidation, copies of the consolidation order and all subsequent pleadings and orders must be filed in each consolidated case, except that all papers filed in an adoption case must be maintained only in the adoption case file.
(b) RELATED CASES. When an attorney or party becomes aware of the existence of a related case, he or she must immediately notify, in writing, the judges or magistrate judges on whose calendars the cases appear.
(c) SEPARATE TRIALS. The court may order a separate trial of one or more claims or counterclaims or of any separate issues when it will promote the efficient administration of justice.