2005 Minnesota Statutes

     487.19 Concurrent jurisdiction. 

    Subdivision 1.    Jurisdiction.  The county court shall 
 have concurrent jurisdiction in the following cases: 

    (a) proceedings for the administration of trust estates or 
 actions relating thereto; 

    (b) proceedings for divorce, annulment, and legal 
 separation, and actions related thereto, as prescribed by 
 chapter 518; 

    (c) proceedings under the reciprocal enforcement of support 
 act, chapter 518C; 

    (d) proceedings for adoption and change of name under 
 chapter 259; 

    (e) proceedings to quiet title to real estate and real 
 estate mortgage foreclosures by action; and 

    (f) proceedings for the determination of paternity of and 
 establishment and enforcement of child support payments for a 
 child born to a mother who was not married to the child's father 
 when the child was conceived nor when the child was born. 

    Subd. 2.    Transfer of jurisdiction.  Any action within the 
 jurisdiction of the county 
 court commenced in the district court may be transferred to the 
 county court for trial or other proceedings upon the motion of 
 any party, or upon the motion of the district court. 

    Subd. 3.    Transfer after disqualification.  Where the county 
 court judge or judges in a 
 county court district are disqualified from hearing a matter 
 within concurrent jurisdiction of the county and district 
 courts, or where the district court judge otherwise agrees to 
 hear a matter, said matter shall be transferred to the district 
 court for further proceedings. 

    HIST: 1971 c 951 s 19; 1973 c 679 s 13; 1977 c 282 s 12; 1978 
 c 772 s 62; 1983 c 7 s 12; 1983 c 243 s 5 subd 10