Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-13-3103. Judges and chancellors

(c)(1)(A) The chancery judge and circuit-chancery judges of the Twenty-second Judicial District may, by agreement, hold either of the circuit or chancery courts in their respective districts and may hear and try matters pending in any of those courts or may hear or try matters in the same court at the same time.

(B) The judges subject to subdivision (c)(1)(A) of this section may adopt such rules as they deem appropriate for the assignment of cases in the circuit and chancery courts of their judicial district.

(2)(A) The circuit-chancery judges of the Seventh Judicial District may, by agreement, hold either of the circuit or chancery courts in their respective districts and may hear and try matters pending in any of those courts or may hear or try matters in the same court at the same time.

(B) The judges subject to subdivision (c)(2)(A) of this section may adopt such rules as they deem appropriate for the assignment of cases in the circuit and chancery courts of their judicial district.

(d)(1)(A) The judge of the Second Division in each district shall be the judge of the juvenile division of chancery court.

(B) The judge shall serve as judge of the juvenile division in lieu of the judge who would otherwise be designated as judge of the juvenile division of chancery court in the judicial district.

(2)(A) The qualified electors of the district shall elect the additional circuit judge created by subdivision (e)(1) of this section at the 2008 preferential primary election to take office on January 1, 2009.

(B) The additional circuit judge shall be elected from the district, shall satisfy the same qualifications for holding office, and shall receive the same salary, expenses, and other allowances as provided by law for judges of the circuit courts.

(C) The circuit judge shall serve for elected terms of six (6) years.