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472.020 to a circuit judge who is also judge of the probate division and who was on January 1, 1979, a probate judge shall only be with the consent of such judge of the probate division.   3.  If any circuit judge or associate circuit judge shall proceed to hear and determine any case or class of cases which has not been assigned to him or her by the presiding judge pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 of this section, or to which he or she had not been transferred by the chief justice of the supreme court, or in the event the purported assignment to him or her shall be determined to be defective or deficient in any manner, any order or judgment he or she may have entered may be set aside, as otherwise provided by rule or by law, and the judge may be subject to discipline under Article V, Section 24 of the Missouri Constitution, but he or she shall not be deemed to have acted other than as a judicial officer because of any such absence, defect or deficiency of assignment under this section, or transfer by the chief justice. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1987 H.B. 222, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1993 S.B. 88, A.L. 2014 S.B. 621) (1987) There is no requirement that an order of assignment made by a presiding judge of a circuit court pursuant to this section be filed in order for the assignment to be effective and default judgement entered before order of assignment was filed is not a reason to set aside such judgement. Jones v. Chrysler Corp., 731 S.W.2d 422 (Mo. App.S.D.).

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