Mezerkor v. Mezerkor

The instant cases present this court with the opportunity to straighten out what has developed into nothing short of a *307procedural morass. In order to make sense out of what took place in the courts below, we have abridged the procedural history of these cases by relating only those aspects which are germane to our resolution of these causes.

Predictably, the procedural quagmire these cases have produced has led the parties to assert a number of issues relating to consolidation and merger of cases under Civ.R. 42, whether cases retain separate identities even when consolidated, and whether a…