23 Transfer

Here's a plain English summary of this rule:

If a family court case is filed in a certain county, it has to stay there until the court makes a decision on the case (adjudication). The court can't move the case to a different county before that happens, unless there's a good legal reason.

There are only two reasons a judge can move the case early. The first is if the case was filed in the wrong county to begin with, meaning it doesn't meet the legal requirements to be heard there. The second is called "forum non conveniens," which means the current county is too inconvenient or impractical for the case to be handled fairly, so a different location makes more sense.

For people involved in a case, this means you can count on your case staying in the same county through the early stages, unless someone raises one of these two specific issues and the judge agrees. This helps prevent cases from being moved around without good reason, which keeps things fair and predictable for everyone involved.