RS 13:1139 Transfer of cases
§1139. Transfer of cases
NOTE: Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, changed the eff. date to Dec. 31, 2014.
A. All pending cases filed in the Orleans Parish Family Court and/or in the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans acting on behalf of the Orleans Parish Family Court pursuant to Act 620 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of 1976 or pursuant to certain orders of the Louisiana Supreme Court, except those matters governed by Chapter 2 of the Code of Juvenile Procedure, are hereby transferred to the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans, Domestic Relations Section, for further proceedings in accordance with law. Any judge of the civil district court, the Orleans Parish Family Court, or the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, on his own motion or on motion made in proper person or by attorney for any interested party, may transfer any such case by signing the necessary order to transfer. Upon the signing of such an order, the clerks of the courts shall effect delivery of the record to the clerk of the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans, who shall receipt for same and properly file it in his office. The Domestic Relations Section of the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans shall hear and dispose of each such case with the same legal effect as if it had been instituted in that court in the first instance.
B. It is the express intent of this Section that the jurisdiction conferred by law, particularly the Louisiana Code of Juvenile Procedure, upon, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court shall be the same as it was prior to the enactment of Act 620 of 1976 and shall remain unchanged, except as otherwise provided in the Louisiana Code of Juvenile Procedure. Said court shall continue to be known as Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, notwithstanding its change of name effected by Act 620 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of 1976 and the subsequent repeal of the provisions of said Act shall not be construed or interpreted to change its jurisdiction, its powers, its duties, its various departments or its personnel, except as herein set forth and provided.
Added by Acts 1979, No. 460, §3, eff. July 1, 1979; Acts 1991, No. 976, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §19(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 675, §1, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2008, No. 873, §1, eff. July 9, 2008.