{"meta":{"key":"s_ne--pass-12","task":"S_NE","title":"SNE Nebraska ordinary consumer-debt civil case entry, venue, service, response, default, and bounded vacatur","parent_title":"Nebraska debt and debt relief law","edition":"pass-12","path":"/research/s_ne--pass-12/","kind":"split_pass","category":"state","role":"state","area_numbers":[66],"groups":["collections"],"date":"2026-10-26","tables":9,"claims":54,"sources":23,"review_status":"four_bounded_corrections_pending_UNSENT_all_other_holds_retained","review_complete":true,"sha256":"23e6d01effe019d3eaea1a8b5b32b7d5678c608d72746551d733bac52d1918ff","headings":["Executive determination","A1. Small Claims Court eligibility","A2. Regular civil real-party and assignment rules","A3. Entity representation","A4. Nebraska venue","A5. FDCPA venue overlay","A6. Personal jurisdiction and out-of-state defendants","A7. Current court fees and fee waiver","B1. Filing commences the action","B2. Service within 180 days","C1. 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General appearance risk in a service challenge","Example 1 — Personal service and regular answer","Example 2 — Certified-mail service","Example 3 — Filing and 180-day service","Example 4 — Timely Rule 12 motion","Example 5 — Negotiation without court response","Example 6 — Attempted initial email service","Example 7 — Court-authorized substitute service","Example 8 — Publication","Example 9 — Small Claims Court","Example 10 — Default motion after no answer","Example 11 — Defective service and void judgment","Example 12 — Valid service but discretionary default relief","Example 13 — Small-claims default","Example 14 — Broad vacatur motion and general appearance","Freshly read in PASS-12","Prior-pass treatment","Numerical and calendar self-check","Bounded negative and unresolved searches"],"generation_provenance":{"actual_route":"regular_chat_adaptive_models","actual_model":"GPT-5.6 Sol","actual_mode":"Pro","provenance_limit":"Actual documented capture labels only; missing labels remain unknown. No preferred setting is inferred as actual execution."},"public_id":"S_NE/pass-12","facets":{"geography":["us","us-ne"],"debt_type":[],"stage":["lawsuit"],"subject":["court-entry-service"]},"scope":"Distinct ordinary collection civil-entry/venue/service/answer/default/vacatur registryitem4 component; evidence/postjudgment/sector dossierlater","pending_corrections":4},"markdown":"# S_NE PASS-12 — Nebraska ordinary consumer-debt civil case entry, venue, service, response, default, and bounded vacatur\n\n**Actual fresh research date:** October 26, 2026, Pacific time / October 26, 2026 UTC\n**Mode/model:** Regular Chat; GPT-5.6 Sol Pro\n**Review status:** Same-project continuation, **not independent review**.\n\nThis pass is limited to ordinary unsecured consumer-debt suits in Nebraska district court, regular county court, and Small Claims Court: court selection, jurisdiction, venue, real-party and representation rules, commencement, service, response timing, default entry, and bounded procedures for setting aside a default.\n\nPASS-06 through PASS-11 remain saved but **unreviewed**. Their substantive contract, remedies, licensing, validation, reporting, and limitation conclusions are not accepted premises here. The narrow current §25-217 filing-and-service rules were freshly read to prevent a false “filing alone preserves the action” statement; this report does not determine whether any particular debt claim was substantively timely.\n\nMortgage foreclosure, vehicle deficiency, medical and public debts, landlord-tenant proceedings, probate claims, bankruptcy procedure, arbitration, complete standing and assignment proof, hearsay and authentication, postjudgment interest, judgment duration or renewal, liens, satisfaction, garnishment, exemptions, appellate procedure, and remedies remain separate required work.\n\n## Executive determination\n\nNebraska has three materially different ordinary civil routes:\n\n1. **District court** is a court of general original jurisdiction.\n2. **Regular county court** has concurrent civil jurisdiction for claims of **$70,000 or less** from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030.\n3. **Small Claims Court**, a division of county court, is limited to **$7,500 or less**, exclusive of interest and costs. It is a hearing-driven, informal route—not simply regular civil court with a smaller complaint. Assigned claims cannot be filed there, attorneys generally do not participate before transfer or default-related postjudgment proceedings, and the defendant ordinarily responds by appearing at the scheduled hearing rather than by filing the regular 30-day answer. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-14-uniform-county-court-rules-practice-and-procedure/%C2%A7-6-1462-county-court-civil-jurisdiction?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nFor a regular county- or district-court action:\n\n- the action is commenced when the complaint is filed;\n- summons and complaint must be properly served on each defendant within **180 days**;\n- failure to serve causes automatic dismissal without prejudice on the day after the service period expires;\n- Nebraska’s savings clause expressly does **not** rescue an action dismissed for failure to serve under §25-217; and\n- a defendant normally must answer within **30 days after service**, or after completion of publication service. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-217&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nInitial service is not accomplished merely by emailing, texting, or electronically filing the complaint. Nebraska verifies personal service, residence service, certified mail, designated delivery, specified entity service, out-of-state methods, and court-authorized substitute or publication service. Email can be used for many **later** Rule 5 documents when the rule’s conditions are met, but not as an unrestricted substitute for the initial summons and complaint. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-505.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA missed answer or hearing does not itself produce a money judgment. Since January 1, 2025, even a party who never appeared must be served with the motion for default judgment and notice of the hearing. The plaintiff must still establish the claim, and where proof, an accounting, or damages assessment is necessary, the court must receive evidence. In county court, default ordinarily requires a verified pleading, affidavits, or sworn testimony; a negotiable instrument relied upon must be surrendered to the court. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1105-serving-and-filing-pleadings-and-other-documents?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nVacatur has separate branches:\n\n- A judgment entered without personal jurisdiction is void and may be attacked without the ordinary discretionary time limit.\n- A prompt same-term application supported by a nonfrivolous meritorious defense invokes the court’s discretionary power.\n- A motion filed within six months after entry preserves §25-2001(1) relief even if decided after the term.\n- Listed after-term grounds under §25-2001(4) require a new complaint, summons, a valid defense, and commencement within two years.\n- Small Claims Court has a specific ten-day new-trial route, followed by the county-court vacatur framework.\n- SCRA relief is a distinct federal branch for qualifying servicemembers. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2001&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n# A. Court, amount, party, representation, and venue matrix\n\n| Route | Subject-matter and amount | Who may use it | Ordinary response structure | Important limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Nebraska district court** | General original jurisdiction unless law assigns the matter elsewhere | Real party in interest, qualifying assignee, or other statutorily authorized plaintiff | Written answer ordinarily due 30 days after service; ordinary pleading rules | Higher filing fee; entity ordinarily must appear through Nebraska counsel; full civil procedure applies |\n| **Regular county court** | Concurrent civil jurisdiction through **$70,000** from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030 | Real party in interest or qualifying assignee | Written answer ordinarily due 30 days after service | Claims shown to exceed jurisdiction may be transferred; regular evidentiary and pleading rules apply |\n| **Small Claims Court** | **$7,500 or less**, exclusive of interest and costs | Only a party to the underlying transaction; **no assigned claims** | Hearing is set at filing; defendant appears at hearing; no ordinary answer unless case is transferred | Generally no attorney representation; no jury; no formal pleadings beyond claim, notice, and any setoff/counterclaim; filing frequency limits |\n| **Small claim transferred to regular county docket** | Original claim may begin within small-claims limit; transfer can also follow excess counterclaim | Defendant or defendant’s attorney may transfer at least two days before hearing; excess counterclaim also transfers entire matter | Defendant must then file an answer | Transfer fee; ordinary county procedure follows, though pleading motions require court order upon showing |\n| **Federal court removal boundary** | Federal-question jurisdiction or diversity with amount in controversy over $75,000 and complete diversity, subject to removal statutes | Defendant satisfying federal removal prerequisites | Federal procedure after valid removal | A federal defense or FDCPA counterclaim does not by itself make an ordinary state contract complaint removable |\n\nDistrict courts have general original jurisdiction. County-court civil jurisdiction is presently $70,000 or less. Small Claims Court is capped at $7,500 exclusive of interest and costs. [Nebraska Legislature+2](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-302)\n\n## A1. Small Claims Court eligibility\n\nNebraska Small Claims Court permits individuals, partnerships, LLCs, corporations, unions, associations, and other organizations. An individual represents themself; a partnership may use a partner or employee; an LLC may use a member, manager, or employee; and a corporation may use an employee. That is a statutory small-claims exception to the ordinary rule requiring entities to appear through licensed counsel. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2803&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nTwo limitations are especially important in purchased-debt cases:\n\n- Only a person or entity that was a party to the transaction with the defendant may file and prosecute the small claim.\n- No assigned claim may be filed.\n\nAn assignee or debt buyer may be able to sue in regular county or district court, but §25-2803 bars use of Small Claims Court for an assigned claim. The plaintiff also may not file more than two small claims in a calendar week or ten in a calendar year. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2803&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nSmall claims is tried to the judge without a jury. Formal pleadings beyond the claim, notice, and any counterclaim or setoff are unnecessary, and the formal rules of evidence generally do not apply except for privileges. A setoff or counterclaim must be filed and delivered to the plaintiff at least two days before hearing; an excess counterclaim transfers the entire case to the regular county docket. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2804&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## A2. Regular civil real-party and assignment rules\n\nA regular civil action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest. The court may not dismiss immediately for a real-party defect; it must first allow a reasonable time for joinder or substitution. An assignee of a chose in action may sue in its own name, and an assignee holding a claim for collection may sue when the assignment is in writing. Nebraska authority requires proof of the written assignment by a preponderance of the evidence. Full account-level assignment proof and admissibility are deferred to the evidence component. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-301))\n\nThese ordinary-assignment provisions do not override Small Claims Court’s specific ban on assigned claims.\n\n## A3. Entity representation\n\nOutside Small Claims Court’s statutory exception, an LLC, corporation, partnership, or comparable artificial entity ordinarily must act in court through a Nebraska-licensed attorney. In *Steinhausen v. HomeServices of Nebraska*, the Nebraska Supreme Court treated pleadings filed for an LLC by a nonlawyer as a nullity; the rule applied even to a single-member LLC. ([nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00004806PUB&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nAn individual may appear pro se. That permission does not authorize the individual to represent a separate corporation, LLC, trust, or another person.\n\n## A4. Nebraska venue\n\nFor an ordinary contract action not governed by a more specific venue statute, venue is proper in:\n\n- a county where any defendant resides;\n- the county where the cause of action arose;\n- the county where the transaction or part of it occurred; or\n- any county if all defendants are nonresidents of Nebraska.\n\nImproper venue does not destroy subject-matter jurisdiction. On a timely defendant motion, the court must transfer the case to a proper county, and the receiving court may award reasonable transfer-related expenses and attorney fees. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-403.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nSmall-claims venue is narrower in wording: where the defendant or the defendant’s agent resides or does business, or where the cause arose. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2802))\n\n## A5. FDCPA venue overlay\n\nWhen the plaintiff is a federal “debt collector” and the suit concerns a qualifying consumer debt, 15 U.S.C. §1692i generally requires a non-real-property debt action to be filed in the judicial district or similar legal entity where:\n\n- the consumer signed the contract sued upon; or\n- the consumer resided when the action commenced.\n\nThat federal provision does not create Nebraska jurisdiction or venue that otherwise does not exist. Debt-collector and consumer-debt status remain separate predicates. ([uscode.house.gov](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t15/s1692i/?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## A6. Personal jurisdiction and out-of-state defendants\n\nNebraska’s long-arm statute reaches enumerated Nebraska contacts and, through its catchall, extends to the limit of federal constitutional due process. Personal jurisdiction, subject-matter jurisdiction, and venue remain distinct. A defendant can waive personal-jurisdiction or service objections through a qualifying general appearance, but parties cannot create subject-matter jurisdiction by agreement or appearance. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-536&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## A7. Current court fees and fee waiver\n\nThe Judicial Branch schedule effective July 1, 2026 shows:\n\n| Filing route | Current listed court total | Important qualification |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| District-court civil filing | **$144** | Service, publication, witness, copying, and other costs are separate |\n| Regular county civil filing | **$62–$82** | Varies by amount category |\n| Small claim | **$58** | Service cost is separate |\n| Small-claim transfer to regular docket | **$20** | Paid by transferring party |\n\n([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA litigant unable to prepay fees, costs, or security may apply to proceed in forma pauperis under §§25-2301 through 25-2310. The current official application is DC 6:7.1, revised March 2025. Approval is a court determination, not automatic upon filing the form. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/DC-6-7-1.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n# B. Commencement, summons, and the 180-day service requirement\n\n## B1. Filing commences the action\n\nAn ordinary Nebraska civil action is commenced by filing the complaint in the proper court. The summons must direct the defendant to the action, identify the parties and plaintiff’s counsel or address, and notify the defendant that an appropriate written response must be filed within 30 days after service or judgment may follow. A copy of the complaint is served with the summons except in publication service. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-501&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThe plaintiff files a praecipe identifying the defendant, address, and requested service method. Separate or additional summonses may be issued on written request. Nebraska does not supply a separate ordinary “summons expires in X days” provision; the decisive outer requirement is that each defendant be properly served within §25-217’s 180-day period. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-502.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## B2. Service within 180 days\n\nEach named defendant must be properly served within 180 days after filing. If the action is stayed during that period, the statute generally permits service within 90 days after the stay allows the action to proceed.\n\nFailure has a self-executing result:\n\nPlain text\n```\nComplaint filed\n        ↓\n180-day service period runs\n        ↓\nNo proper service by end of period\n        ↓\nAction automatically dismissed without prejudice\non the following day\n```\n\nThe dismissal is automatic even without a defendant motion or court order. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-217&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n“Without prejudice” does not guarantee refiling. Nebraska’s savings clause expressly excludes an action that failed because the plaintiff did not serve the defendant within §25-217’s time. If the underlying limitation period has expired, a new action may be barred. This pass does not adopt PASS-11’s debt-specific limitation classifications or compute any actual claim deadline. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-201.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n# C. Service-method matrix\n\n| Method or person served | Authorized actor and required steps | When service is complete | Proof and principal limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Personal service on adult individual** | Sheriff, qualifying bonded process server, another authorized person, or specially appointed nonparty leaves summons with defendant | On delivery | Complaint accompanies summons |\n| **Residence service** | Summons left at defendant’s usual residence with a resident of suitable age and discretion | On qualifying delivery | Actual “usual place” and resident status matter |\n| **Certified mail** | Plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney sends within 10 days after summons issuance, return receipt requested | On qualifying delivery shown by receipt | Proof with signed receipt filed within 10 days after receipt is received or electronically available |\n| **Designated delivery service** | Plaintiff or attorney sends within 10 days and obtains signed delivery receipt | Delivery date on receipt | Service provider must qualify under federal designation |\n| **Corporation** | Serve officer, director, managing agent, registered agent, employee at registered office, or certified/designated delivery to registered office | On qualifying delivery | Actual corporate status and recipient role matter |\n| **Individual under 14** | Serve adult parent, guardian, or caregiver with whom minor resides; if none found, personal service on minor | On qualifying statutory service | Defense must later be through appointed guardian for suit |\n| **Incapacitated or institutionalized individual** | Serve individual by available method; notify guardian, conservator, or institutional official | Under ordinary service method | Statute says failure of the additional notice does not invalidate service on the incapacitated person |\n| **Out-of-state defendant** | Nebraska method, law of place of service, letter rogatory, or court-directed method | Under governing authorized method | Must be reasonably calculated to give actual notice; proof must satisfy statute/order/place law |\n| **Court-authorized substitute service** | Motion and affidavit showing ordinary statutory methods cannot be completed with reasonable diligence | As court order specifies | Court may authorize residence posting plus first-class mail, publication, or another reasonably calculated method |\n| **Publication** | Court-authorized publication once each week for three successive weeks; known interested parties also mailed notice where required | Not until third publication | Mail copy within 5 days after first publication; affidavit within 10 days after mailing |\n| **Voluntary appearance** | Defendant invokes court power beyond objections to personal jurisdiction, process, or service | Equivalent to service | Broad requests can waive service objections |\n| **Ordinary email or text of summons** | Not independently authorized as ordinary initial service | Not valid merely because sent or received | Could become valid only if a court authorizes it as substitute service under §25-517.02 |\n| **Electronic court filing** | Filing through authorized system | Files document with court | Does not itself serve initial summons and complaint |\n\n## C1. Who may serve process\n\nExcept for certified mail or designated delivery, service is ordinarily made by:\n\n- the sheriff in the county where service occurs;\n- a qualifying process server;\n- another person authorized by law; or\n- a nonparty individual or entity specially appointed by the court.\n\nCertified-mail and designated-delivery service are made by the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-506.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA statutory private process server must be at least 21, not a party or relative of a party, have no interest in the action, not be a disqualified county official, and furnish a $15,000 corporate surety bond. Proof is by affidavit. The taxable service cost is capped at the lesser of actual cost or the statutory sheriff’s fee. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-507&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## C2. Personal and residence service\n\nPersonal service leaves the summons with the defendant. Residence service leaves it at the defendant’s usual place of residence with a resident of suitable age and discretion. The actual address, whether it was the usual residence, and whether the recipient lived there are legal facts—not assumptions from a mailing database. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-505.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## C3. Certified mail and designated delivery\n\nCertified mail or designated delivery must be sent within ten days after issuance. The receipt must show to whom and where the documents were delivered and the delivery date. Proof must be filed within ten days after the signed receipt is received or becomes electronically available. Delay in filing proof does not itself invalidate otherwise valid service. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-507.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nNebraska’s statute does not invariably require the addressee personally to sign the receipt, but due process still requires notice reasonably calculated to reach the defendant. Service at a workplace signed by an unauthorized employee and never received by the individual was held defective in the officially annotated *Anthony K.* decision. Conversely, the facts in *Capital One Bank v. Lehmann* supported valid certified-mail service despite a third-party household signature. The identity and relationship of the signer, address used, and actual delivery path matter. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-508.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## C4. Corporate service\n\nA corporation may be served on an officer, director, managing agent, or registered agent; by leaving process at the registered office with an employee; or by certified mail or designated delivery to the registered office. Service on an unrelated employee or an address that is not the registered office is not validated merely because the recipient works for an affiliated business. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-509.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThe exact service provisions for LLCs, partnerships, government entities, and other organizations require their corresponding statutes and entity facts. Those were not exhaustively reproduced here.\n\n## C5. Minors and protected persons\n\nA person under 14 is ordinarily served through an adult parent, guardian, or caregiver with whom the minor resides; if none can be found, personal service on the minor is permitted. Once served, the minor’s defense must be conducted through a guardian for the suit, appointed after service. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-309))\n\nFor an incapacitated person with a guardian or conservator, or someone confined in an institution, additional notice is given to the representative or institutional official. The statute states that failure to give that additional notice does not invalidate service on the incapacitated person, although default and due-process questions can still be fact-sensitive. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-508.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## C6. Substitute service\n\nSubstitute service requires:\n\n1. a motion;\n2. an affidavit;\n3. a showing that service cannot be made with reasonable diligence through another statutory method; and\n4. a court order.\n\nThe court may authorize:\n\n- leaving process at the usual residence and mailing a copy by **first-class mail**;\n- publication; or\n- another method reasonably calculated to provide actual notice and an opportunity to be heard.\n\nA party cannot unilaterally switch to substitute service, and certified mail cannot be substituted for the first-class mailing specified in the residence-posting branch. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-517.02&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThe Judicial Branch released forms CC 6:6.5, CC 6:6.6, and CC 6:6.7 in December 2025 for the motion, supporting affidavit, and proposed order. The forms facilitate the application; they do not guarantee that reasonable diligence or the proposed method will be approved. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-6-6-5.pdf))\n\n## C7. Publication\n\nPublication is once each week for three successive weeks. Service is not complete until the third publication. When names and mailing addresses of parties with a direct legal interest are known, the initiating party generally must mail the published notice within five days after the first publication and file the mailing affidavit within ten days after mailing. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-519&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThe regular 30-day answer period begins after completion of publication service. The summons or published notice may specify the resulting answer date consistently with the governing rules.\n\n## C8. Out-of-state service\n\nWhen Nebraska law authorizes jurisdiction, out-of-state service may use:\n\n- a Nebraska method;\n- the law of the place where service occurs;\n- a foreign authority’s response to a letter rogatory; or\n- a court-directed method.\n\nThe method must be reasonably calculated to give actual notice. Proof follows Nebraska law, the court order, or the law of the service location. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-540&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## C9. Voluntary appearance and waiver\n\nA voluntary appearance is equivalent to service. A defendant preserves personal-jurisdiction, process, and service objections through the pleading procedures. But asking the court for affirmative relief on another subject can create a general appearance and waive those objections. Merely filing an appearance of counsel that seeks no general relief is not necessarily a waiver. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-516.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nNo separate universal, court-approved ordinary-debt “waiver of summons” form was located in this pass. The verified Nebraska mechanism is the voluntary-appearance doctrine, with significant waiver consequences.\n\n## C10. Email, text, and electronic filing\n\nNebraska permits email service for many documents **after** the original complaint when the person has supplied an email address under the applicable rule. That service is ineffective if the sender learns the document did not reach the recipient. It does not make email a standard method for initial process. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1105-serving-and-filing-pleadings-and-other-documents?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA court could authorize email, text, social-media delivery, or another electronic method under §25-517.02 only after the required diligence showing and court order. Actual wording, account ownership, ability to receive, and the order’s conditions would control.\n\n# D. Responding in regular civil court and Small Claims Court\n\n## D1. Regular county and district answer deadline\n\nA defendant must serve an answer within **30 days after being served with the summons and complaint**, or within 30 days after completion of publication service. The summons itself carries the same 30-day warning. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1112-defenses-and-objections-when-and-how-presented-pleading-or-motion-motion-judgment-pleadings?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nAn answer must admit or deny the complaint’s allegations and state defenses. An allegation other than the amount of damages is generally admitted if a responsive pleading is required and the defendant does not deny it. Affirmative defenses—including payment, release, arbitration, illegality, statute of frauds, and statute of limitations—must be affirmatively stated. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1108-general-rules-pleading?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThe official CC 3:18 Answer and General Denial form provides a basic general denial and certificate of service. Its simplicity does not determine whether a specific affirmative defense, counterclaim, jurisdictional objection, or particularized admission is required in an actual case. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-3-18.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## D2. Rule 12 motions\n\nA timely motion under §6-1112 changes the answer deadline:\n\n- if denied or postponed until trial, the answer is due within 21 days after notice of the court’s action;\n- if a motion for more definite statement is granted, the answer is due within 21 days after the more definite statement is served;\n- the court may specify a different period.\n\nA motion alters the answer deadline only if it is a qualifying, timely motion under the rule. A letter to the plaintiff, settlement call, administrative complaint, CRA dispute, furnisher dispute, FDCPA validation request, payment proposal, or ordinary motion not covered by §6-1112 does not automatically extend the answer date. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1112-defenses-and-objections-when-and-how-presented-pleading-or-motion-motion-judgment-pleadings?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nPersonal-jurisdiction, process, and service defenses can be waived if omitted from the first Rule 12 motion or responsive pleading as the rule requires. Subject-matter jurisdiction is different and cannot be conferred through waiver.\n\n## D3. Extension of a rule deadline\n\nFor deadlines set by court rule, the court may extend time for good cause if requested before expiration or, after expiration, on a showing of excusable neglect. A court may not extend a statutory deadline unless the statute permits it. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases/%C2%A7-6-1106-time?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA pending settlement negotiation is not itself a court order extending time.\n\n## D4. Filing and serving the answer\n\nThe answer is filed with the court and served on the opposing party or opposing counsel under §6-1105. The CC 3:18 form includes a certificate for first-class-mail service. Electronic filing and service rules may apply depending on the party, representation, and court-authorized system.\n\nProviding an answer only to the plaintiff without filing it with the court does not complete the filing obligation. Filing only with the court without required service on the opposing party does not complete the service obligation.\n\n## D5. Small Claims Court response\n\nSmall Claims Court does not use the ordinary 30-day answer structure. Filing the claim produces a hearing date, and the defendant receives the complaint and summons at least five days before hearing. The principal response is appearing at the scheduled hearing. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2804&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA defendant may:\n\n- appear and defend at the hearing;\n- file and deliver a setoff or counterclaim at least two days beforehand;\n- transfer the case to regular county court by written notice and fee at least two days before hearing; or\n- act through an attorney for the transfer procedure.\n\nAfter transfer, an answer is required. The official transfer form is CC 4:3. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-3.pdf))\n\nA negotiation with the small-claims plaintiff does not continue the hearing unless the court changes the date or the case is formally dismissed or resolved.\n\n# E. Time computation\n\n## E1. Basic counting rule\n\nNebraska excludes the triggering day and includes the final day. If the final day falls on Saturday, Sunday, a listed court holiday, or a day when the court office is closed by order, the deadline extends to the next day the court office is open. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2221&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThis rule applies to the regular 30-day answer calculation unless another statute or rule supplies a different computation.\n\n## E2. Additional three days after mail\n\nThree additional days apply when a party must act after being served with a **later** document by mail under §6-1105(b)(3)(C). The three days are added after the original period is calculated. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases/%C2%A7-6-1106-time?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThat rule does **not** add three days to the initial 30-day answer period merely because the summons and complaint arrived by certified mail. The initial answer period runs from service under §6-1112 and the summons statutes.\n\n## E3. Electronic filing cutoff and timezone\n\nAn electronically transmitted document received by the court-authorized system by **11:59:59 p.m. local time where the court is located** is deemed filed that date. For county and district court, the court’s location is the county seat of the county where the action is filed. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-2-appeals/article-2-electronic-filing-service-and-notice-system-nebraska-trial-and-appellate-courts/%C2%A7-2-206-time-filing-and-time-service?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nElectronic filing does not enlarge a deadline, cure defective initial service, or authorize filing after midnight in the user’s different timezone.\n\n## E4. Electronic-system failure\n\nThe court may enter a corrective order when filing failed because of an unknown transmission error involving the court-authorized provider or a clerk processing error. A statutory terminating deadline may be corrected only on clear and convincing proof that the failure resulted solely from that provider or clerk error.\n\nIf the authorized system is unavailable for more than 24 hours, paper or court fax filing may become available under the rule. A user’s own computer, internet, email, or scanner failure is expressly excluded from that outage provision. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-2-appeals/article-2-electronic-filing-service-and-notice-system-nebraska-trial-and-appellate-courts/%C2%A7-2-213-transmission-technical-problems-corrective-order?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n# F. Default procedure\n\n## F1. Missing a deadline does not itself create judgment\n\nFailure to answer can put the defendant in default, but a money judgment still requires court action. The plaintiff must request default, serve the required papers, and establish the legal and factual basis for relief.\n\nSince January 1, 2025, §6-1105 requires service on a nonappearing defaulting party of:\n\n- the motion for entry of default judgment; and\n- notice of the hearing on that motion.\n\nA pleading asserting a new claim against a defaulting party must be served like a summons. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1105-serving-and-filing-pleadings-and-other-documents?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## F2. Proof of claim and amount\n\nIn county court, a default judgment may be entered only on a verified petition, affidavits, or sworn testimony establishing the claim. If the claim is based on a negotiable instrument, the original instrument must be surrendered. [Nebraska Supreme Court](https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-14-uniform-county-court-rules-practice-and-procedure/%C2%A7-6-1432-default-judgments)\n\nMore generally, when an account, factual proof, or damages assessment is necessary, the court may take the account, hear proof, assess damages, refer the issue, or direct a jury assessment. Damages allegations are not automatically admitted through failure to deny. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1308))\n\nThe summons and complaint also limit default relief:\n\n- the judgment may not be different in kind from the demanded relief; and\n- special damages may not exceed the amount demanded.\n\nFull substantive proof of contract, ownership, account records, interest, fees, assignment, and hearsay foundations remains for the evidence pass.\n\n## F3. Appearance and notice branch\n\nA defendant who has appeared is entitled to the procedural notices applicable to later documents. The current rule now also requires default-motion and hearing notice even when the defendant never appeared.\n\nAn informal call to plaintiff’s counsel does not necessarily constitute a court appearance. A filed pleading, motion, or other request invoking court power can.\n\n## F4. Servicemember protection\n\nBefore entering default against a nonappearing defendant, the court must require an affidavit stating whether the defendant is in military service and supporting facts, or explaining why military status could not be determined.\n\nIf the defendant is in military service:\n\n- the court must appoint an attorney;\n- it must grant at least a 90-day stay when the statutory conditions are met; and\n- a qualifying servicemember can seek reopening during service or within the statutory post-service period by showing military service materially affected the defense and a meritorious or legal defense exists.\n\nThe SCRA procedure does not establish that every veteran, reservist, or household member qualifies. ([uscode.house.gov](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t50/s3931/?utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## F5. Minors and protected defendants\n\nA minor’s defense must be through a guardian for the suit appointed after service. A default against a minor or a person of unsound mind can also implicate §25-2001(4)(d) where the condition did not appear in the record. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-309))\n\n## F6. Default compared with other dispositions\n\n| Disposition | Essential distinction |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Default judgment** | Defendant failed to plead or appear as required; plaintiff still obtains court judgment after procedural and proof requirements |\n| **Dismissal** | Ends the plaintiff’s action, with or without prejudice depending on authority |\n| **Settlement** | Parties agree to resolve the dispute; no judgment necessarily results |\n| **Consent judgment** | Parties consent to entry of a judgment with its own terms and consequences |\n| **Judgment on the pleadings** | Court decides based on pleadings after responsive pleadings have closed |\n| **Summary judgment** | Court considers admissible evidence and determines no genuine dispute requires trial |\n| **Small-claims nonappearance judgment** | Hearing-based default under Small Claims Act, followed by its appeal/new-trial/vacatur routes |\n\nNo seizure, garnishment, lien, or other asset enforcement occurs merely because an answer was late. Those require a judgment and separate postjudgment procedures.\n\n# G. Setting aside or vacating a default\n\n## G1. Vacatur branch matrix\n\n| Branch | Timing | Required showing or procedure | Principal consequence |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Void judgment—no personal jurisdiction** | Can be attacked at any time | Establish lack of valid service or appearance and resulting lack of personal jurisdiction | Court must vacate void judgment; ordinary discretionary meritorious-defense prerequisite does not control in the same way |\n| **Same-term inherent power** | During court term | Prompt application and a meritorious defense; court balances decision on merits and judicial efficiency | Discretionary relief on reasonable terms |\n| **§25-2001(1) motion** | Motion filed within **6 months after entry** | Same grounds as inherent term power; promptness and meritorious defense generally relevant | Timely motion preserves power even if decided after term or after six months |\n| **Clerical correction** | Any time | True clerical mistake or oversight | Nunc pro tunc correction; cannot replace substantive reconsideration |\n| **After-term statutory grounds** | Within **2 years after entry** for listed §25-2001(4) grounds | New complaint identifying judgment, ground, and defense; summons served as new action; valid defense established | Court may vacate or modify |\n| **Equitable action** | Not limited by §25-2001 text | Independent equitable predicates | Fact- and remedy-specific; not a catchall substitute for neglected statutory procedures |\n| **Small-claims new trial** | Motion filed **10 days or less** after entry | Grounds under referenced new-trial statutes; official CC 4:9 form available | Court may act without hearing |\n| **Small-claims later vacatur** | More than 10 days after default | §25-2720.01 applies district-court vacatur powers to county/small claims | Uses corresponding §25-2001 framework |\n| **SCRA reopening** | During military service or qualifying period after service | Material effect of military service plus meritorious or legal defense | Separate federal relief branch |\n\n## G2. Void judgment for defective service\n\nA judgment entered without personal jurisdiction is void. Every court has inherent power to vacate such a judgment during or after the term. In *Capital One Bank v. Lehmann*, the Nebraska Court of Appeals stated that a void judgment may be attacked at any time, but ultimately concluded that certified-mail service was valid on the specific household-delivery facts. The case does not make every third-party signature valid. ([nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010782PUB&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nA voidness challenge is different from asking the court to excuse a late answer despite valid service. The former contests personal jurisdiction; the latter invokes discretionary vacatur.\n\n## G3. Same-term discretionary relief\n\nNebraska courts favor decisions on the merits, but default relief is not automatic. *Applied Underwriters v. Oceanside Laundry* restates the rule that when a default judgment has been entered and a prompt same-term application is made with an answer or other proof disclosing a meritorious defense, the court should ordinarily set the judgment aside on reasonable terms. A “meritorious defense” need not be proven to final victory, but it must be nonfrivolous and worthy of judicial inquiry. ([nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010619PUB&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nPromptness, explanation for the default, prejudice, and the proposed defense are all relevant to discretion. A bare statement that “I disagree” is not necessarily enough.\n\n## G4. Six-month motion\n\nSection 25-2001(1) permits the district court’s inherent term power to be exercised after term when the motion is filed within six months after judgment entry. In *Hawk v. Hawk*, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that timely filing within six months preserves that power even if the court rules after the term or after the six-month anniversary. ([nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00012252PUB))\n\nDistrict-court terms are fixed annually by district judges; they should not be assumed to match the calendar year. County court is statutorily treated as having a regular term beginning January 1 for this purpose. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-303&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## G5. After-term statutory grounds\n\nSection 25-2001(4) lists:\n\n- clerk mistake, neglect, omission, or irregularity in obtaining judgment;\n- fraud practiced by the successful party in obtaining judgment;\n- newly discovered material evidence that due diligence could not have produced in time;\n- erroneous proceedings against an infant or person of unsound mind whose condition did not appear in the record;\n- death before judgment;\n- unavoidable casualty or misfortune preventing prosecution or defense; and\n- excessive judgment on a warrant of attorney without summons or equivalent notice.\n\nProceedings on these grounds are commenced by a **complaint**, not merely a motion. The complaint must identify the judgment, ground, and defense; a summons issues and is served as in a new action. The applicant must establish a valid defense before the judgment is vacated. The proceeding generally must begin no later than two years after entry, subject to the disability rule stated in §25-2008. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2002&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## G6. County and Small Claims Court\n\nCounty court, including Small Claims Court, has the same set-aside, vacatur, and modification powers as district court insofar as applicable. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2720.01&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nFor a Small Claims Court default:\n\n- the judgment may be appealed;\n- a new-trial motion filed within ten days or less may be acted upon without a hearing; and\n- after more than ten days, §25-2720.01 governs.\n\nAttorneys may represent parties for the purpose of filing the new-trial or vacatur motion, even though ordinary small-claims representation is otherwise restricted. ([nebraskalegislature.gov](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2804&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\n## G7. General appearance risk in a service challenge\n\nA party contesting personal jurisdiction or service can waive that objection by simultaneously invoking the court’s power on unrelated merits matters. *Herman v. Peter Tonn Enterprises* confirms that a motion seeking relief beyond personal-jurisdiction issues can constitute a general appearance and corrects an overbroad aspect of the earlier *Applied Underwriters* statutory analysis. ([nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00011653PUB&utm_source=chatgpt.com))\n\nThat does not mean a defendant can never combine arguments. It means the requested relief and sequence matter. This pass does not supply a sample vacatur motion.\n\n# H. Official form and public-resource inventory\n\n| Form/resource | Direct URL | Version/page | Purpose | Limitation |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Small Claims Plaintiff Packet — CC 4:20** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-20.pdf | NEW 07/2026; 9 pages; cover printed page/index 0 | Guide and checklist for filing a small claim | Self-help material; statutes and rules control |\n| **Small Claims Defendant Packet — CC 4:21** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-21.pdf | NEW 07/2026; 8 pages; cover/index 0 | Guide and checklist for responding to small claim | Does not replace case-specific court order or legal analysis |\n| **Answer and General Denial — CC 3:18** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-3-18.pdf | Rev. 03/2022; printed page 1/index 0; 2 pages | Basic answer/general denial and certificate of service | May be insufficient for particular admissions, affirmative defenses, motions, or counterclaims |\n| **Notice of Transfer to Civil Docket — CC 4:3** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-3.pdf | Rev. 05/2016; printed page 1/index 0 | Transfers small claim to regular county docket | Must be filed in writing at least two days before hearing and transfer fee paid |\n| **Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment and Application for New Trial — CC 4:9** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-9.pdf | Rev. 02/2015; printed page 1/index 0; 2 pages | Ten-day small-claims new-trial/default route | Not the complete form for every voidness, six-month, or after-term theory |\n| **Affidavit and Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis — DC 6:7.1** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/DC-6-7-1.pdf | Rev. 03/2025; printed page 1/index 0; 3 pages | Requests waiver of prepayment of fees, costs, or security | Requires sworn financial information and court approval |\n| **Motion for Substitute Service — CC 6:6.5** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-6-6-5.pdf | NEW 12/2025; printed page 1/index 0; 2 pages | Requests court-authorized substitute service | Does not itself authorize service |\n| **Affidavit Supporting Substitute Service — CC 6:6.6** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-6-6-6.pdf | NEW 12/2025; printed page 1/index 0; 2 pages | Describes diligent unsuccessful efforts | Actual diligence remains judicial determination |\n| **Order for Substitute Service — CC 6:6.7** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-6-6-7.pdf | NEW 12/2025; printed page 1/index 0 | Proposed order specifying permitted method | Service is complete only as the signed order provides |\n| **Filing Fees and Court Costs** | https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs | Effective 07/01/2026 | Current public fee schedule | Costs can change; service and publication separate |\n\nThe 2026 small-claims packets expressly state that costs and service fees can change and direct low-income litigants to the in forma pauperis application. ([nebraskajudicial.gov](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-20.pdf))\n\n# I. Bounded workflows and calendar examples\n\nAll dates are hypothetical. The examples assume no special court order, stay, local holiday, military issue, minor/protected-party issue, or alternate service fact unless stated. Arithmetic does not establish claim validity, jurisdiction, service validity, or entitlement to judgment.\n\n## Example 1 — Personal service and regular answer\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Personal service completed Monday, November 2, 2026.\n- Regular county-court action.\n- No Rule 12 motion or extension.\n\n**Counting**\n\nPlain text\n```\nTrigger day excluded                    November 2\nDay 1                                  November 3\nDay 30                                 December 2, 2026\nDay 30 is                              Wednesday\n```\n\n**Conditional answer deadline:** Wednesday, December 2, 2026.\n\nNo three mailing days are added because the summons was personally served.\n\n## Example 2 — Certified-mail service\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Summons issued Monday, November 2, 2026.\n- Plaintiff elects certified mail.\n- Mailing occurs within the statutory ten-day issuance period.\n- Delivery shown on signed receipt Friday, November 6, 2026.\n\n**Issuance requirement**\n\nPlain text\n```\nIssue date                              November 2\nLatest send date                        November 12\nActual send date                        assumed timely\n```\n\n**Answer counting**\n\nPlain text\n```\nService/delivery                        Friday, November 6\nTrigger day excluded                    November 6\nDay 30                                  Sunday, December 6\nWeekend extension                      Monday, December 7\n```\n\n**Conditional answer deadline:** Monday, December 7, 2026.\n\nThe answer period runs from service/delivery, not from the mailing date. The three-day Rule 5 mail extension does not apply.\n\n## Example 3 — Filing and 180-day service\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Complaint filed Friday, January 2, 2026.\n- No stay.\n- No defendant served.\n\n**Counting**\n\nPlain text\n```\nFiling date excluded                    January 2\n180th day                               Wednesday, July 1, 2026\nLast day to complete proper service     July 1\nAutomatic dismissal date               Thursday, July 2\n```\n\nIf service is not completed by July 1, the action is dismissed by operation of law on July 2. A later voluntary appearance cannot revive an already dismissed case, and the savings clause does not apply to this failure-to-serve branch.\n\n## Example 4 — Timely Rule 12 motion\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Service Monday, November 2, 2026.\n- Qualifying Rule 12 motion timely served before December 2.\n- Court denies motion, and notice of denial is served Thursday, December 10, 2026.\n- Court sets no different time.\n\n**Counting**\n\nPlain text\n```\nNotice day excluded                     December 10\n21st day                                Thursday, December 31\n```\n\n**Conditional answer deadline:** Thursday, December 31, 2026.\n\nA motion sent only to plaintiff’s counsel but not properly filed and served under the rules would not necessarily alter the deadline.\n\n## Example 5 — Negotiation without court response\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Defendant served November 2.\n- Defendant calls plaintiff on November 10.\n- Plaintiff says it will “look into a payment plan.”\n- No filed extension, court order, dismissal, or qualifying motion occurs.\n\n**Result**\n\nPlain text\n```\nCourt answer deadline                   remains December 2\nSettlement discussion                   does not extend deadline\nAdministrative or bureau dispute        does not extend deadline\nPayment offer                           does not extend deadline\n```\n\nA private agreement may affect litigation only if it is enforceable and properly implemented; the court deadline does not move by assumption.\n\n## Example 6 — Attempted initial email service\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Plaintiff files complaint.\n- Plaintiff emails a PDF of summons and complaint.\n- No personal, residence, certified-mail, designated-delivery, entity, or out-of-state method is completed.\n- No §25-517.02 order authorizes email.\n\n**Result**\n\nPlain text\n```\nActual awareness                        possible\nStatutory initial service               not established\n30-day answer trigger                   not established\n180-day service clock                   continues to run\n```\n\nActual notice and valid service are different. A defendant’s later request for merits relief could create a voluntary appearance, but merely receiving or reading the email is not service.\n\n## Example 7 — Court-authorized substitute service\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Sheriff and certified-mail attempts fail.\n- Plaintiff files CC 6:6.5 and supporting sworn CC 6:6.6.\n- Court finds reasonable diligence and signs CC 6:6.7 authorizing posting at the usual residence plus first-class mail.\n- Plaintiff completes both steps exactly as ordered.\n\n**Result**\n\nService is complete when the court’s signed order says it is complete. Certified mail cannot be substituted for the ordered first-class mailing unless the court modifies the order.\n\n## Example 8 — Publication\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Court authorizes publication.\n- Notice published once weekly on November 4, 11, and 18, 2026.\n- Required mailing to known addresses is timely completed.\n\n**Completion**\n\nPlain text\n```\nFirst publication                       November 4\nSecond publication                      November 11\nThird publication                       November 18\nService complete                        November 18\n30-day answer period begins after       November 18\n```\n\nUnder ordinary computation, the thirtieth day would be Friday, December 18, 2026. The result depends on the actual publication schedule, notice language, mailing, and court order.\n\n## Example 9 — Small Claims Court\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Claim is $4,500.\n- Plaintiff was the original transaction party.\n- Claim is not assigned.\n- Hearing is set June 15.\n- Defendant receives valid notice June 8.\n\n**Result**\n\nPlain text\n```\nAmount within $7,500 limit              Yes\nNotice interval                         7 days\nMinimum statutory notice                5 days\nOrdinary written answer required        No\nRequired response                       appear June 15\nTransfer deadline                       at least 2 days before hearing\nCounterclaim/setoff delivery            at least 2 days before hearing\n```\n\nIf the plaintiff is only an assignee, Small Claims Court is unavailable even though the amount is below $7,500.\n\n## Example 10 — Default motion after no answer\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Valid service and answer deadline have passed.\n- Defendant filed nothing.\n- Plaintiff seeks default.\n\n**Required sequence**\n\nPlain text\n```\n1. Plaintiff files default motion.\n2. Motion and hearing notice are served on defendant.\n3. Plaintiff supplies verified pleading, affidavit, or sworn evidence.\n4. Court reviews claim, ownership, balance, and damages.\n5. SCRA affidavit is supplied for a nonappearing defendant.\n6. Court—not plaintiff—decides whether and for what amount judgment enters.\n```\n\nA late answer may create a default posture, but no judgment or asset seizure arises automatically.\n\n## Example 11 — Defective service and void judgment\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Summons mailed to a former workplace.\n- Receipt signed by an unauthorized receptionist.\n- Defendant never receives it and never appears.\n- Default judgment enters.\n\n**Potential branch**\n\nIf those facts establish that service did not comply with Nebraska law or due process and the court never obtained personal jurisdiction, the judgment is void and may be attacked at any time.\n\n**Different facts**\n\nIf summons was delivered to the defendant’s residence and signed by a household member in circumstances reasonably calculated to give notice, *Capital One* demonstrates that the court may find service valid. The signer’s identity alone does not decide the issue.\n\n## Example 12 — Valid service but discretionary default relief\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Service was valid.\n- Defendant missed the deadline through a claimed mistake.\n- Motion is filed promptly during the term or within six months.\n- Proposed answer identifies payment, mistaken identity, or another nonfrivolous defense supported by records.\n\n**Result**\n\nThe judgment is not void. Relief is discretionary under §25-2001(1) and the same-term doctrine. Promptness and a meritorious defense are central.\n\n## Example 13 — Small-claims default\n\n**Facts**\n\n- Default judgment entered Monday, June 1, 2026.\n\n**Ten-day branch**\n\nPlain text\n```\nEntry day excluded                       June 1\nDay 10                                   Thursday, June 11\n```\n\nA small-claims new-trial motion filed by June 11 is within the statutory ten-day branch, assuming no special court closure. After that period, the §25-2720.01/§25-2001 framework applies. The official CC 4:9 form addresses the new-trial route but does not cover every later voidness or statutory vacatur theory.\n\n## Example 14 — Broad vacatur motion and general appearance\n\n**Facts**\n\nA defendant claims service was defective but files a motion asking the court both to:\n\n- dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction; and\n- reduce the judgment on the merits and order a new payment plan.\n\n**Risk**\n\nThe request for merits relief invokes powers beyond the personal-jurisdiction objection and can constitute a general appearance under *Herman*. That can waive service objections. This example does not determine the result of any particular motion; exact wording and sequence control.\n\n# J. Source register\n\n| Source ID | Authority, issuer, full literal URL, exact pinpoint | Version/status/access | Exact limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_NE-P12-S001** | **District and county jurisdiction.** Nebraska Legislature, §24-302: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-302; Nebraska Supreme Court Rule §6-1462: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-14-uniform-county-court-rules-practice-and-procedure/%C2%A7-6-1462-county-court-civil-jurisdiction. | Freshly read October 26, 2026 Pacific/UTC. County limit $70,000 effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030. | Subject-matter route only; does not decide venue, claim validity, or evidence. [Nebraska Legislature+1](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-302) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S002** | **Small Claims Act.** §§25-2802–25-2806: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2802; ...=25-2803; ...=25-2804; ...=25-2805; ...=25-2806. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. Current $7,500 limit effective July 1, 2025. | Small Claims Court only; assigned-claim ban and representation exceptions do not govern regular civil docket. [Nebraska Legislature+4](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2802) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S003** | **Venue, long-arm, and FDCPA venue.** §25-403.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-403.01; §25-536: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-536; 15 U.S.C. §1692i: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t15/s1692i/. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | FDCPA branch applies only to qualifying debt collector and consumer debt; does not create state jurisdiction. [Nebraska Legislature+2](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-403.01) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S004** | **Federal removal boundary.** 28 U.S.C. §§1331, 1332, 1441: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1331/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1332/; https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title28-section1441. | Freshly read/bounded check October 26, 2026. | Only jurisdictional boundary; complete removal timing and procedure excluded. [U.S. Code+2](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1331/) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S005** | **Real party and assignments.** §§25-301, 25-302, 25-304: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-301; ...=25-302; ...=25-304. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Entry/party capacity only; full assignment authentication and account proof deferred. [Nebraska Legislature+2](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-301) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S006** | ***Steinhausen v. HomeServices of Nebraska*, 289 Neb. 927 (2015).** https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00004806PUB; printed pp. 935–937, zero-based PDF indices 8–10. | Final published Nebraska Supreme Court opinion; relevant pages freshly read October 26, 2026. | Artificial-entity representation; Small Claims Act creates an express exception. [Nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00004806PUB) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S007** | **Current filing fees and IFP.** Judicial Branch fee schedule: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs; §25-2301: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2301; DC 6:7.1: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/DC-6-7-1.pdf, printed page 1/index 0. | Schedule effective July 1, 2026; form Rev. 03/2025; freshly read October 26, 2026. | Fees can change; service, publication, witness, and copying costs separate. [Nebraska Judicial Branch+4](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S008** | **Commencement, praecipe, summons, complaint, and 180-day service.** §§25-501, 25-502.01, 25-503.01, 25-504.01, 25-217: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-501; ...=25-502.01; ...=25-503.01; ...=25-504.01; ...=25-217. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. Current §25-217 uses 180 days; older six-month annotations are historical. | Does not determine underlying limitation period. [Nebraska Legislature+4](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-501) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S009** | **Savings clause.** §25-201.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-201.01, subsections (1)–(3). | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Used only to establish no savings relief for failure to serve; debt-specific limitation analysis excluded. [Nebraska Legislature](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-201.01) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S010** | **Ordinary service methods and process servers.** §§25-505.01, 25-506.01, 25-507, 25-507.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-505.01; ...=25-506.01; ...=25-507; ...=25-507.01. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Validity remains fact-specific; proof delay differs from defective service. [Nebraska Legislature+3](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-505.01) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S011** | **Individuals, minors, incapacitated persons, corporations, appearance.** §§25-508.01, 25-509.01, 25-516.01, 25-309: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-508.01; ...=25-509.01; ...=25-516.01; ...=25-309. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Other entity-service statutes not exhaustively reproduced. [Nebraska Legislature+3](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-508.01) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S012** | **Substitute, publication, and out-of-state service.** §§25-517.02, 25-519, 25-520.01, 25-540: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-517.02; ...=25-519; ...=25-520.01; ...=25-540. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Court order and reasonable diligence required for substitution; publication has additional debt-case due-process limits not exhaustively litigated here. [Nebraska Legislature+3](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-517.02) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S013** | **Response and pleading rules.** §§6-1112, 6-1108, 6-1105, 6-1106: direct Judicial Branch URLs appearing above. | Current rules effective January 1, 2025 where stated; freshly read October 26, 2026. | Regular civil cases; small claims follows its separate statutes. [Nebraska Judicial Branch+3](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-11-nebraska-court-rules-pleading-civil-cases-effective-january-1-2025/%C2%A7-6-1112-defenses-and-objections-when-and-how-presented-pleading-or-motion-motion-judgment-pleadings) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S014** | **Time and electronic filing.** §25-2221: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2221; Rules §§2-206 and 2-213: direct Judicial Branch URLs above. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | User computer or internet failure is not authorized-system unavailability. [Nebraska Legislature+2](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2221) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S015** | **Default proof.** §25-1308: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1308; County Rule §6-1432: Judicial Branch rule page previously opened. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Full evidence, hearsay, standing, and amount proof deferred. [Nebraska Legislature+1](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1308) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S016** | **Vacatur statutes.** §§25-2001, 25-2002, 25-2004, 25-2005, 25-2008, 25-2009, 25-2720.01, 24-303: direct Legislature URLs above. | Freshly read October 26, 2026. | Different branches have different procedures and deadlines; full equity and appeal analysis excluded. [Nebraska Legislature+6](https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2001) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S017** | **SCRA default protection.** 50 U.S.C. §3931: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t50/s3931/. | U.S. Code through Public Law 119-124, October 15, 2026; freshly read October 26. | Applies only where defendant did not appear and military predicates are satisfied. [U.S. Code](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t50/s3931/) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S018** | ***Capital One Bank v. Lehmann*, 23 Neb. App. 292 (2015).** https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010782PUB; printed p.292/index 0, p.298/index 6, p.301/index 9. | Final published Court of Appeals opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026. | Void-judgment and certified-mail facts; does not validate every third-party signature. [Nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010782PUB) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S019** | ***Applied Underwriters v. Oceanside Laundry*, 300 Neb. 333 (2018).** https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010619PUB; printed p.333/index 0, p.340/index 7, p.341/index 8. | Final Nebraska Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026. | Same-term default relief and meritorious defense. General-appearance analysis must be read with later *Herman*. [Nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010619PUB) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S020** | ***Hawk v. Hawk*, 319 Neb. 120 (2025).** https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00012252PUB; printed p.120/index 0, p.128/index 8. | Final published Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026. | Six-month filing preserves §25-2001(1) power; family-case facts do not limit statutory interpretation. [Nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00012252PUB) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S021** | ***Herman v. Peter Tonn Enterprises*, 318 Neb. 52 (2024).** https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00011653PUB; printed p.52/index 0, p.57/index 5, p.60/index 8. | Final published Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026. | General-appearance and waiver rule; actual motion wording controls. [Nebraska.gov](https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00011653PUB) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S022** | **Official forms and packets.** CC 4:20, CC 4:21, CC 3:18, CC 4:3, CC 4:9, DC 6:7.1, CC 6:6.5, CC 6:6.6, CC 6:6.7; URLs in the forms table. | Freshly parsed and visually inspected October 26, 2026. Versions range from 02/2015 to 07/2026. | Self-help forms do not supersede statutes, current rules, signed orders, or case-specific requirements. [Nebraska Judicial Branch+8](https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-20.pdf) |\n| **S_NE-P12-S023** | **Bounded current searches** of Nebraska Legislature, Judicial Branch rules/forms, Nebraska published opinions, U.S. Code, and federal jurisdiction statutes for current answer, default-notice, electronic-service, vacatur, and form changes. | Search/read work October 26, 2026. | No full commercial citator, county-specific local-rule universe, trial docket, nonpublished order archive, or clerk contact. |\n\n# K. Claim register\n\n| Claim ID | Precise assertion | Source and pinpoint | Conditions, consequence, confidence |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_NE-P12-C001** | Nebraska district court has general original jurisdiction except where law provides otherwise. | S001, §24-302. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C002** | Regular county court currently has concurrent civil jurisdiction through $70,000. | S001, Rule §6-1462. | **High;** current period July 1, 2025–June 30, 2030. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C003** | Small Claims Court is currently limited to $7,500 exclusive of interest and costs. | S002, §25-2802. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C004** | Small Claims Court bars assigned claims and requires plaintiff to have been a transaction party. | S002, §25-2803(4)–(5). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C005** | Small-claims entities may use listed employees, members, managers, or partners rather than counsel. | S002, §25-2803(3). | **High;** small-claims-only exception. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C006** | Regular-court artificial entities ordinarily must appear through Nebraska counsel. | S006, *Steinhausen*, pp.935–937. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C007** | Small-claims defendant ordinarily responds by appearing at hearing, not the regular 30-day answer. | S002, §§25-2804–25-2806. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C008** | Small-claims transfer and counterclaim documents generally must be filed/delivered at least two days before hearing. | S002, §§25-2804(4), 25-2805. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C009** | Regular venue lies where defendant resides, cause arose, or transaction occurred; improper venue is transferred on timely motion. | S003, §25-403.01. | **High.** Venue is not subject-matter jurisdiction. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C010** | FDCPA venue applies only to qualifying debt collector and consumer-debt suits. | S003, 15 U.S.C. §1692i. | **High;** federal predicates required. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C011** | Ordinary state contract complaint is not removable merely because defendant has a federal defense. | S004. | **High federal boundary;** full removal analysis excluded. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C012** | Every regular civil action must be in real party’s name, with time allowed for substitution after objection. | S005, §25-301. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C013** | Assignee can sue in own name; collection assignee’s assignment must be written. | S005, §§25-302, 25-304. | **High;** proof/admissibility later. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C014** | Current listed filing totals are $144 district, $62–$82 county, and $58 small claims. | S007, effective 07/01/2026 schedule. | **High for listed schedule;** service and other costs separate. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C015** | Court may permit qualifying indigent litigant to proceed without fee prepayment. | S007, §25-2301 and DC 6:7.1. | **High;** court approval required. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C016** | Ordinary action commences on complaint filing. | S008, §§25-501, 25-217(1). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C017** | Each defendant must be properly served within 180 days after filing. | S008, §25-217(2). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C018** | Failure to serve by the deadline causes automatic dismissal the following day. | S008, §25-217(3). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C019** | Nebraska savings clause does not rescue failure to serve under §25-217. | S009, §25-201.01(2)(c). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C020** | Summons warns of a 30-day written-response deadline and possible judgment. | S008, §25-503.01. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C021** | Personal, residence, certified-mail, and designated-delivery service are authorized ordinary methods. | S010, §25-505.01. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C022** | Certified or designated delivery must be sent within 10 days of summons issuance. | S010, §25-505.01(1)(c)–(d). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C023** | Late filing of proof does not itself invalidate otherwise valid service. | S010, §25-507.01(3). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C024** | Private process server must satisfy age, neutrality, interest, and $15,000 bond requirements. | S010, §25-507. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C025** | Corporate service may be made on specified agents or at registered office. | S011, §25-509.01. | **High;** entity facts required. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C026** | Minor under 14 and incapacitated-person service have additional statutory conditions. | S011, §§25-508.01, 25-309. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C027** | Substitute service requires motion, affidavit, reasonable-diligence showing, and court order. | S012, §25-517.02. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C028** | Publication requires three successive weekly publications and is not complete until the third. | S012, §25-519. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C029** | Publication generally requires mailing known interested parties within five days after first publication. | S012, §25-520.01. | **High;** statutory exceptions apply. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C030** | Out-of-state service can use Nebraska method, place-of-service law, letters rogatory, or court direction. | S012, §25-540. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C031** | Voluntary general appearance is equivalent to service and can waive service objections. | S011, §25-516.01; S021. | **High;** exact relief sought matters. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C032** | Ordinary initial service by email/text is not valid absent court-authorized substitute service. | S012, §25-517.02; S013, §6-1105. | **High bounded conclusion.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C033** | Regular answer is due 30 days after service or completion of publication. | S013, §6-1112(a)(1)(A). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C034** | Timely Rule 12 motion generally moves answer deadline to 21 days after specified court action or more-definite statement. | S013, §6-1112(a)(2). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C035** | Failure to deny non-damages allegation can admit it; affirmative defenses must be stated. | S013, §6-1108(b)–(c). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C036** | Negotiation, validation dispute, CRA dispute, or payment offer does not independently extend court deadline. | S013–S014. | **High procedural distinction.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C037** | Nebraska excludes trigger day and extends weekend/holiday endpoint. | S014, §25-2221. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C038** | Three extra mail days apply to later Rule 5 mail service, not initial summons answer period. | S013, §6-1106(c). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C039** | E-file received by 11:59:59 p.m. local court time is filed that date. | S014, Rule §2-206. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C040** | User internet/computer failure is not the court-system-outage exception. | S014, Rule §2-213. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C041** | Default motion and hearing notice must be served even on nonappearing defaulting party. | S013, §6-1105(a)(2)(A). | **High; effective current rule.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C042** | Missed answer does not itself enter judgment; plaintiff must establish claim and amount. | S015, §25-1308 and County Rule §6-1432. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C043** | County default can be supported by verified petition, affidavits, or sworn testimony; original negotiable instrument must be surrendered when relied upon. | S015, Rule §6-1432. | **High;** evidence component later. |\n| **S_NE-P12-C044** | SCRA requires military-status affidavit before default against nonappearing defendant. | S017, 50 U.S.C. §3931. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C045** | Judgment without personal jurisdiction is void and can be attacked at any time. | S018, *Capital One*, p.292/index0 and p.298/index6. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C046** | Valid certified-mail service depends on statutory and due-process facts; third-party signature is not categorically valid or invalid. | S010–S011; S018. | **High, fact-dependent.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C047** | Prompt same-term motion with meritorious defense ordinarily supports discretionary default relief. | S019, *Applied Underwriters*, p.340/index7. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C048** | §25-2001(1) motion filed within six months preserves power even if decided later. | S016; S020, *Hawk*, p.128/index8. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C049** | After-term §25-2001(4) relief requires complaint, summons, listed ground, valid defense, and ordinarily two-year commencement. | S016, §§25-2001, 25-2002, 25-2005, 25-2008. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C050** | County and small claims have corresponding district-court vacatur powers. | S016, §25-2720.01. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C051** | Small-claims default has ten-day new-trial route; after ten days, §25-2720.01 applies. | S002, §25-2804(7). | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C052** | Motion requesting relief beyond jurisdictional objection can create general appearance. | S021, *Herman*, pp.57, 60/indices5,8. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C053** | Official forms are procedural aids, not determinations that facts satisfy statutes or rules. | S022. | **High.** |\n| **S_NE-P12-C054** | No current comprehensive county-specific local-rule, unpublished default-order, or trial-docket universe was reviewed. | S023. | **Express gap, not absence finding.** |\n\n# L. Granular coverage and remaining gaps\n\n| Assigned issue | Status | Claim IDs | Exact missing evidence or next action |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| District-court jurisdiction | **Answered** | C001 | Actual complaint and statutory claim category |\n| County-court monetary jurisdiction | **Answered** | C002 | Actual amount in controversy |\n| Small-claims limit | **Answered** | C003 | Actual principal, interest, costs, and claim characterization |\n| Small-claims transaction-party rule | **Answered** | C004 | Actual contract and assignment history |\n| Small-claims assigned claim | **Answered as prohibited** | C004 | Nature of transfer/title |\n| Small-claims representation | **Answered** | C005, C007 | Actual entity and representative role |\n| Regular entity representation | **Answered generally** | C006 | Exact legal entity and counsel status |\n| Small-claims hearing response | **Answered** | C007–C008 | Actual hearing notice and any court order |\n| Small-claims transfer | **Answered** | C008 | Filing date, fee, and answer order |\n| Real party in interest | **Answered procedurally** | C012–C013 | Full assignment proof and admissibility later |\n| Nebraska venue | **Answered** | C009 | Residence, transaction, cause-of-action facts |\n| FDCPA venue overlay | **Answered conditionally** | C010 | Federal debt-collector and consumer-debt predicates |\n| Forum-selection clause | **Unresolved/excluded** | — | Actual clause and enforceability analysis |\n| Federal removal | **Answered only as boundary** | C011 | Complete federal jurisdiction and removal-timing facts |\n| Current filing fees | **Answered** | C014 | Fee schedule on actual filing date |\n| Fee waiver | **Answered procedurally** | C015 | Sworn finances and court decision |\n| Filing commencement | **Answered** | C016 | Actual file stamp |\n| 180-day service | **Answered** | C017–C019 | Filing date, stay, each defendant’s service record |\n| Additional summons/reissue | **Answered in part** | C016–C020 | Praecipe and clerk records; no separate universal expiration found |\n| Personal service | **Answered** | C021 | Return and identity of recipient |\n| Residence service | **Answered** | C021 | Usual residence and resident recipient facts |\n| Certified-mail service | **Answered** | C022–C023, C046 | Send date, receipt, signer, address, actual delivery path |\n| Designated delivery | **Answered** | C021–C023 | Approved carrier and signed receipt |\n| Process-server eligibility | **Answered** | C024 | Bond and affidavit records |\n| Corporation service | **Answered** | C025 | Corporate registry and recipient status |\n| Minor service and defense | **Answered** | C026 | Age, residence, guardian appointment |\n| Incapacitated person | **Answered** | C026 | Guardian/conservator/institution facts |\n| LLC/partnership/government service | **Partial** | — | Entity-specific statutory provisions |\n| Substitute service | **Answered procedurally** | C027 | Diligence record and signed order |\n| Publication | **Answered** | C028–C029 | Court order, publication affidavits, address search and mailing |\n| Email/text initial service | **Answered as invalid absent order** | C032 | Any §25-517.02 order |\n| Out-of-state service | **Answered generally** | C030 | Foreign method and proof |\n| Waiver/voluntary appearance | **Answered generally** | C031, C052 | Exact filing and relief requested |\n| Regular answer deadline | **Answered** | C033 | Actual service-completion date |\n| Answer contents | **Answered generally** | C035 | Complaint and case-specific defenses |\n| Rule 12 timing | **Answered** | C034 | Motion type, filing, service, and order |\n| Negotiation/dispute effect | **Answered as no automatic extension** | C036 | Actual stipulation or court order |\n| Weekend/holiday computation | **Answered** | C037 | Actual holiday/closure order |\n| Three mail days | **Answered narrowly** | C038 | Service method for later document |\n| E-filing cutoff | **Answered** | C039 | System receipt record and local court timezone |\n| System outage | **Answered** | C040 | Provider/clerk error evidence |\n| Default notice | **Answered** | C041 | Actual motion and service |\n| Default proof | **Answered procedurally** | C042–C043 | Full merits, balance, standing, and evidence later |\n| Negotiable instrument surrender | **Answered for county default** | C043 | Actual instrument and status |\n| SCRA default | **Answered narrowly** | C044 | Military status and material effect |\n| Minor/protected default | **Partial** | C026, C049 | Guardian, capacity record, and specific judgment facts |\n| Void judgment | **Answered generally** | C045–C046 | Actual service, appearance, and court record |\n| Same-term default relief | **Answered** | C047 | Term, promptness, explanation, proposed defense |\n| Six-month relief | **Answered** | C048 | Entry date and motion file date |\n| After-term statutory vacatur | **Answered** | C049 | Exact ground, complaint, service, valid defense |\n| County/small-claims vacatur | **Answered** | C050–C051 | Entry date and chosen route |\n| General-appearance risk | **Answered** | C052 | Exact motion wording |\n| Clerical correction | **Answered textually** | S016 | Whether claimed error is clerical or substantive |\n| Equity relief | **Partial** | S016 | Independent equitable elements and limitation |\n| Full appeal procedure | **Excluded** | — | Separate appeal component |\n| Judgment enforcement/garnishment | **Excluded** | — | Separate postjudgment component |\n| Substantive contract/interest/fees | **Excluded** | — | Separate merits component |\n| Evidence, hearsay, authentication | **Excluded except default boundary** | C042–C043 | Dedicated evidence/standing pass |\n| Arbitration | **Excluded** | — | Dedicated arbitration and stay analysis |\n| Local court practices | **Unresolved** | C054 | Current county-specific rules and signed orders |\n| Named case deadline or operational approval | **Not performed** | — | Actual docket, summons, return, orders, and party records |\n| Component/state/parent/A066 acceptance | **Not granted** | — | Remaining registry work and scoped review |\n\n# M. Researcher self-check\n\n## Freshly read in PASS-12\n\n- Current Nebraska statutes governing:district and county jurisdiction;Small Claims Court jurisdiction, parties, representation, filing, notice, transfer, hearing, and default;general and small-claims venue;long-arm jurisdiction;real-party status and assignments;commencement, summons, complaint, praecipe, service, proof, substitute service, publication, out-of-state service, and voluntary appearance;minors and protected persons;automatic dismissal for failure to serve;savings-clause exclusion;default proof;vacatur, after-term complaint, valid-defense requirement, two-year period, county/small-claims power, and district-court terms;time computation; andin forma pauperis procedure.\n- Current Nebraska Supreme Court rules addressing:county-court monetary jurisdiction;answer timing;Rule 12 motions;answer and affirmative defenses;later-document service;current default-motion notice;extensions and three-day mail rule;electronic filing time;and system-error relief.\n- Current federal provisions concerning:FDCPA venue;federal-question/diversity removal boundaries;and SCRA default protection.\n- The relevant holdings and actual PDF pages in:*Steinhausen v. HomeServices of Nebraska*;*Capital One Bank v. Lehmann*;*Applied Underwriters v. Oceanside Laundry*;*Hawk v. Hawk*; and*Herman v. Peter Tonn Enterprises*.\n- The current fee schedule and all official forms listed in the form inventory, including page/image inspection where applicable.\n\n## Prior-pass treatment\n\nPASS-06 through PASS-11 were not treated as reviewed or accepted premises. The current filing, service, answer, and vacatur statutes were freshly read. No prior conclusion about substantive limitations, contract validity, collector status, reporting, validation, assignment, or remedies was silently adopted.\n\n## Numerical and calendar self-check\n\nThe worked dates were recalculated independently:\n\n- November 2, 2026 was Monday.\n- Thirty days after November 2, excluding the service day, was December 2, 2026.\n- November 6, 2026 was Friday.\n- The thirtieth day after November 6 was Sunday, December 6; the next ordinary open day was Monday, December 7.\n- Twenty-one days after December 10, excluding December 10, was December 31.\n- One hundred eighty days after January 2, 2026, excluding the filing day, was July 1, 2026.\n- June 1, 2026 was Monday; ten days after entry, excluding June 1, was June 11.\n\nThe examples assume no special Chief Justice closure, local emergency order, or case-specific stay.\n\n## Bounded negative and unresolved searches\n\nThe public research did not establish:\n\n- a universal Nebraska initial-service-by-email or text rule;\n- a general court-approved waiver-of-summons form for this ordinary-debt workflow;\n- a complete current county-by-county local-rule universe;\n- a universal rule for service on every type of LLC, partnership, unincorporated association, government entity, or trust;\n- a complete unpublished default-order or trial-level vacatur universe;\n- or a full modern case reconciling every possible combined service challenge and merits request after *Herman*.\n\nThese are bounded research gaps, not findings that no such authority or order exists.\n\n## Not read or performed\n\n- No actual complaint, summons, service return, receipt, docket, answer, default motion, military affidavit, judgment, vacatur motion, assignment, contract, account, or named-party record.\n- No named case, provider, collector, borrower, debt buyer, attorney, or court-account search.\n- No filing, contact, records request, subscription, purchase, private-data access, or clerk inquiry.\n- No complete:assignment and standing evidence report;hearsay and business-record analysis;arbitration dossier;appeal report;postjudgment-interest, renewal, lien, satisfaction, garnishment, or exemption analysis;substantive limitation calculation;secured, medical, government, probate, bankruptcy, local, tribal, or foreign-jurisdiction report.\n- No Deep Research, Work, Codex research generation, API, account change, website action, publication, browser control, other Chat, CAPTCHA bypass, security workaround, or local-file save.\n\n**Focused disposition:** Nebraska’s regular civil route is complaint filing, proper service within 180 days, and a 30-day answer period. Small Claims Court is a separate hearing-driven forum with a $7,500 limit, no assigned claims, distinctive representation rules, and its own transfer/default procedure. Service must follow an authorized statute or court order; actual notice, email receipt, negotiation, bureau disputes, and payment discussions do not replace process or extend a court deadline. Default requires notice, evidence, and judicial action. Vacatur depends on the correct branch—voidness, same-term or six-month discretion, after-term statutory complaint, small-claims new trial, or SCRA—not on one universal “set aside default” rule.\n\nEND S_NE PASS-12. \n\n","tables":[{"headers":["Route","Subject-matter and amount","Who may use it","Ordinary response structure","Important limits"],"index":0,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Route","Subject-matter and amount","Who may use it","Ordinary response structure","Important limits"],["Nebraska district court","General original jurisdiction unless law assigns the matter elsewhere","Real party in interest, qualifying assignee, or other statutorily authorized plaintiff","Written answer ordinarily due 30 days after service; ordinary pleading rules","Higher filing fee; entity ordinarily must appear through Nebraska counsel; full civil procedure applies"],["Regular county court","Concurrent civil jurisdiction through $70,000 from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 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Code"}],[{"href":"https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010782PUB","text":"Nebraska.gov"}],[{"href":"https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010619PUB","text":"Nebraska.gov"}],[{"href":"https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00012252PUB","text":"Nebraska.gov"}],[{"href":"https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00011653PUB","text":"Nebraska.gov"}],[{"href":"https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/CC-4-20.pdf","text":"Nebraska Judicial Branch\n+8"}],[]],"rows":[["Source ID","Authority, issuer, full literal URL, exact pinpoint","Version/status/access","Exact limits"],["S_NE-P12-S001","District and county jurisdiction. Nebraska Legislature, §24-302: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-302; Nebraska Supreme Court Rule §6-1462: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/supreme-court-rules/chapter-6-trial-courts/article-14-uniform-county-court-rules-practice-and-procedure/%C2%A7-6-1462-county-court-civil-jurisdiction.","Freshly read October 26, 2026 Pacific/UTC. County limit $70,000 effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030.","Subject-matter route only; does not decide venue, claim validity, or evidence. \nNebraska Legislature\n+1"],["S_NE-P12-S002","Small Claims Act. §§25-2802–25-2806: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2802; ...=25-2803; ...=25-2804; ...=25-2805; ...=25-2806.","Freshly read October 26, 2026. Current $7,500 limit effective July 1, 2025.","Small Claims Court only; assigned-claim ban and representation exceptions do not govern regular civil docket. \nNebraska Legislature\n+4"],["S_NE-P12-S003","Venue, long-arm, and FDCPA venue. §25-403.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-403.01; §25-536: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-536; 15 U.S.C. §1692i: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t15/s1692i/.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","FDCPA branch applies only to qualifying debt collector and consumer debt; does not create state jurisdiction. \nNebraska Legislature\n+2"],["S_NE-P12-S004","Federal removal boundary. 28 U.S.C. §§1331, 1332, 1441: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1331/; https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1332/; https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title28-section1441.","Freshly read/bounded check October 26, 2026.","Only jurisdictional boundary; complete removal timing and procedure excluded. \nU.S. Code\n+2"],["S_NE-P12-S005","Real party and assignments. §§25-301, 25-302, 25-304: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-301; ...=25-302; ...=25-304.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Entry/party capacity only; full assignment authentication and account proof deferred. \nNebraska Legislature\n+2"],["S_NE-P12-S006","Steinhausen v. HomeServices of Nebraska, 289 Neb. 927 (2015). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00004806PUB; printed pp. 935–937, zero-based PDF indices 8–10.","Final published Nebraska Supreme Court opinion; relevant pages freshly read October 26, 2026.","Artificial-entity representation; Small Claims Act creates an express exception. \nNebraska.gov"],["S_NE-P12-S007","Current filing fees and IFP. Judicial Branch fee schedule: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs; §25-2301: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2301; DC 6:7.1: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/sites/default/files/DC-6-7-1.pdf, printed page 1/index 0.","Schedule effective July 1, 2026; form Rev. 03/2025; freshly read October 26, 2026.","Fees can change; service, publication, witness, and copying costs separate. \nNebraska Judicial Branch\n+4"],["S_NE-P12-S008","Commencement, praecipe, summons, complaint, and 180-day service. §§25-501, 25-502.01, 25-503.01, 25-504.01, 25-217: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-501; ...=25-502.01; ...=25-503.01; ...=25-504.01; ...=25-217.","Freshly read October 26, 2026. Current §25-217 uses 180 days; older six-month annotations are historical.","Does not determine underlying limitation period. \nNebraska Legislature\n+4"],["S_NE-P12-S009","Savings clause. §25-201.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-201.01, subsections (1)–(3).","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Used only to establish no savings relief for failure to serve; debt-specific limitation analysis excluded. \nNebraska Legislature"],["S_NE-P12-S010","Ordinary service methods and process servers. §§25-505.01, 25-506.01, 25-507, 25-507.01: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-505.01; ...=25-506.01; ...=25-507; ...=25-507.01.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Validity remains fact-specific; proof delay differs from defective service. \nNebraska Legislature\n+3"],["S_NE-P12-S011","Individuals, minors, incapacitated persons, corporations, appearance. §§25-508.01, 25-509.01, 25-516.01, 25-309: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-508.01; ...=25-509.01; ...=25-516.01; ...=25-309.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Other entity-service statutes not exhaustively reproduced. \nNebraska Legislature\n+3"],["S_NE-P12-S012","Substitute, publication, and out-of-state service. §§25-517.02, 25-519, 25-520.01, 25-540: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-517.02; ...=25-519; ...=25-520.01; ...=25-540.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Court order and reasonable diligence required for substitution; publication has additional debt-case due-process limits not exhaustively litigated here. \nNebraska Legislature\n+3"],["S_NE-P12-S013","Response and pleading rules. §§6-1112, 6-1108, 6-1105, 6-1106: direct Judicial Branch URLs appearing above.","Current rules effective January 1, 2025 where stated; freshly read October 26, 2026.","Regular civil cases; small claims follows its separate statutes. \nNebraska Judicial Branch\n+3"],["S_NE-P12-S014","Time and electronic filing. §25-2221: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-2221; Rules §§2-206 and 2-213: direct Judicial Branch URLs above.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","User computer or internet failure is not authorized-system unavailability. \nNebraska Legislature\n+2"],["S_NE-P12-S015","Default proof. §25-1308: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=25-1308; County Rule §6-1432: Judicial Branch rule page previously opened.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Full evidence, hearsay, standing, and amount proof deferred. \nNebraska Legislature\n+1"],["S_NE-P12-S016","Vacatur statutes. §§25-2001, 25-2002, 25-2004, 25-2005, 25-2008, 25-2009, 25-2720.01, 24-303: direct Legislature URLs above.","Freshly read October 26, 2026.","Different branches have different procedures and deadlines; full equity and appeal analysis excluded. \nNebraska Legislature\n+6"],["S_NE-P12-S017","SCRA default protection. 50 U.S.C. §3931: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t50/s3931/.","U.S. Code through Public Law 119-124, October 15, 2026; freshly read October 26.","Applies only where defendant did not appear and military predicates are satisfied. \nU.S. Code"],["S_NE-P12-S018","Capital One Bank v. Lehmann, 23 Neb. App. 292 (2015). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010782PUB; printed p.292/index 0, p.298/index 6, p.301/index 9.","Final published Court of Appeals opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026.","Void-judgment and certified-mail facts; does not validate every third-party signature. \nNebraska.gov"],["S_NE-P12-S019","Applied Underwriters v. Oceanside Laundry, 300 Neb. 333 (2018). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewCertified?docId=N00010619PUB; printed p.333/index 0, p.340/index 7, p.341/index 8.","Final Nebraska Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026.","Same-term default relief and meritorious defense. General-appearance analysis must be read with later Herman. \nNebraska.gov"],["S_NE-P12-S020","Hawk v. Hawk, 319 Neb. 120 (2025). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00012252PUB; printed p.120/index 0, p.128/index 8.","Final published Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026.","Six-month filing preserves §25-2001(1) power; family-case facts do not limit statutory interpretation. \nNebraska.gov"],["S_NE-P12-S021","Herman v. Peter Tonn Enterprises, 318 Neb. 52 (2024). https://www.nebraska.gov/apps-courts-epub/public/viewAdvanced?docId=N00011653PUB; printed p.52/index 0, p.57/index 5, p.60/index 8.","Final published Supreme Court opinion; freshly read and visually inspected October 26, 2026.","General-appearance and waiver rule; actual motion wording controls. \nNebraska.gov"],["S_NE-P12-S022","Official forms and packets. CC 4:20, CC 4:21, CC 3:18, CC 4:3, CC 4:9, DC 6:7.1, CC 6:6.5, CC 6:6.6, CC 6:6.7; URLs in the forms table.","Freshly parsed and visually inspected October 26, 2026. Versions range from 02/2015 to 07/2026.","Self-help forms do not supersede statutes, current rules, signed orders, or case-specific requirements. \nNebraska Judicial Branch\n+8"],["S_NE-P12-S023","Bounded current searches of Nebraska Legislature, Judicial Branch rules/forms, Nebraska published opinions, U.S. Code, and federal jurisdiction statutes for current answer, default-notice, electronic-service, vacatur, and form changes.","Search/read work October 26, 2026.","No full commercial citator, county-specific local-rule universe, trial docket, nonpublished order archive, or clerk contact."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise assertion","Source and pinpoint","Conditions, consequence, confidence"],"index":7,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise assertion","Source and pinpoint","Conditions, consequence, confidence"],["S_NE-P12-C001","Nebraska district court has general original jurisdiction except where law provides otherwise.","S001, §24-302.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C002","Regular county court currently has concurrent civil jurisdiction through $70,000.","S001, Rule §6-1462.","High; current period July 1, 2025–June 30, 2030."],["S_NE-P12-C003","Small Claims Court is currently limited to $7,500 exclusive of interest and costs.","S002, §25-2802.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C004","Small Claims Court bars assigned claims and requires plaintiff to have been a transaction party.","S002, §25-2803(4)–(5).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C005","Small-claims entities may use listed employees, members, managers, or partners rather than counsel.","S002, §25-2803(3).","High; small-claims-only exception."],["S_NE-P12-C006","Regular-court artificial entities ordinarily must appear through Nebraska counsel.","S006, Steinhausen, pp.935–937.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C007","Small-claims defendant ordinarily responds by appearing at hearing, not the regular 30-day answer.","S002, §§25-2804–25-2806.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C008","Small-claims transfer and counterclaim documents generally must be filed/delivered at least two days before hearing.","S002, §§25-2804(4), 25-2805.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C009","Regular venue lies where defendant resides, cause arose, or transaction occurred; improper venue is transferred on timely motion.","S003, §25-403.01.","High. Venue is not subject-matter jurisdiction."],["S_NE-P12-C010","FDCPA venue applies only to qualifying debt collector and consumer-debt suits.","S003, 15 U.S.C. §1692i.","High; federal predicates required."],["S_NE-P12-C011","Ordinary state contract complaint is not removable merely because defendant has a federal defense.","S004.","High federal boundary; full removal analysis excluded."],["S_NE-P12-C012","Every regular civil action must be in real party’s name, with time allowed for substitution after objection.","S005, §25-301.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C013","Assignee can sue in own name; collection assignee’s assignment must be written.","S005, §§25-302, 25-304.","High; proof/admissibility later."],["S_NE-P12-C014","Current listed filing totals are $144 district, $62–$82 county, and $58 small claims.","S007, effective 07/01/2026 schedule.","High for listed schedule; service and other costs separate."],["S_NE-P12-C015","Court may permit qualifying indigent litigant to proceed without fee prepayment.","S007, §25-2301 and DC 6:7.1.","High; court approval required."],["S_NE-P12-C016","Ordinary action commences on complaint filing.","S008, §§25-501, 25-217(1).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C017","Each defendant must be properly served within 180 days after filing.","S008, §25-217(2).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C018","Failure to serve by the deadline causes automatic dismissal the following day.","S008, §25-217(3).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C019","Nebraska savings clause does not rescue failure to serve under §25-217.","S009, §25-201.01(2)(c).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C020","Summons warns of a 30-day written-response deadline and possible judgment.","S008, §25-503.01.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C021","Personal, residence, certified-mail, and designated-delivery service are authorized ordinary methods.","S010, §25-505.01.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C022","Certified or designated delivery must be sent within 10 days of summons issuance.","S010, §25-505.01(1)(c)–(d).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C023","Late filing of proof does not itself invalidate otherwise valid service.","S010, §25-507.01(3).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C024","Private process server must satisfy age, neutrality, interest, and $15,000 bond requirements.","S010, §25-507.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C025","Corporate service may be made on specified agents or at registered office.","S011, §25-509.01.","High; entity facts required."],["S_NE-P12-C026","Minor under 14 and incapacitated-person service have additional statutory conditions.","S011, §§25-508.01, 25-309.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C027","Substitute service requires motion, affidavit, reasonable-diligence showing, and court order.","S012, §25-517.02.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C028","Publication requires three successive weekly publications and is not complete until the third.","S012, §25-519.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C029","Publication generally requires mailing known interested parties within five days after first publication.","S012, §25-520.01.","High; statutory exceptions apply."],["S_NE-P12-C030","Out-of-state service can use Nebraska method, place-of-service law, letters rogatory, or court direction.","S012, §25-540.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C031","Voluntary general appearance is equivalent to service and can waive service objections.","S011, §25-516.01; S021.","High; exact relief sought matters."],["S_NE-P12-C032","Ordinary initial service by email/text is not valid absent court-authorized substitute service.","S012, §25-517.02; S013, §6-1105.","High bounded conclusion."],["S_NE-P12-C033","Regular answer is due 30 days after service or completion of publication.","S013, §6-1112(a)(1)(A).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C034","Timely Rule 12 motion generally moves answer deadline to 21 days after specified court action or more-definite statement.","S013, §6-1112(a)(2).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C035","Failure to deny non-damages allegation can admit it; affirmative defenses must be stated.","S013, §6-1108(b)–(c).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C036","Negotiation, validation dispute, CRA dispute, or payment offer does not independently extend court deadline.","S013–S014.","High procedural distinction."],["S_NE-P12-C037","Nebraska excludes trigger day and extends weekend/holiday endpoint.","S014, §25-2221.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C038","Three extra mail days apply to later Rule 5 mail service, not initial summons answer period.","S013, §6-1106(c).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C039","E-file received by 11:59:59 p.m. local court time is filed that date.","S014, Rule §2-206.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C040","User internet/computer failure is not the court-system-outage exception.","S014, Rule §2-213.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C041","Default motion and hearing notice must be served even on nonappearing defaulting party.","S013, §6-1105(a)(2)(A).","High; effective current rule."],["S_NE-P12-C042","Missed answer does not itself enter judgment; plaintiff must establish claim and amount.","S015, §25-1308 and County Rule §6-1432.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C043","County default can be supported by verified petition, affidavits, or sworn testimony; original negotiable instrument must be surrendered when relied upon.","S015, Rule §6-1432.","High; evidence component later."],["S_NE-P12-C044","SCRA requires military-status affidavit before default against nonappearing defendant.","S017, 50 U.S.C. §3931.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C045","Judgment without personal jurisdiction is void and can be attacked at any time.","S018, Capital One, p.292/index0 and p.298/index6.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C046","Valid certified-mail service depends on statutory and due-process facts; third-party signature is not categorically valid or invalid.","S010–S011; S018.","High, fact-dependent."],["S_NE-P12-C047","Prompt same-term motion with meritorious defense ordinarily supports discretionary default relief.","S019, Applied Underwriters, p.340/index7.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C048","§25-2001(1) motion filed within six months preserves power even if decided later.","S016; S020, Hawk, p.128/index8.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C049","After-term §25-2001(4) relief requires complaint, summons, listed ground, valid defense, and ordinarily two-year commencement.","S016, §§25-2001, 25-2002, 25-2005, 25-2008.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C050","County and small claims have corresponding district-court vacatur powers.","S016, §25-2720.01.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C051","Small-claims default has ten-day new-trial route; after ten days, §25-2720.01 applies.","S002, §25-2804(7).","High."],["S_NE-P12-C052","Motion requesting relief beyond jurisdictional objection can create general appearance.","S021, Herman, pp.57, 60/indices5,8.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C053","Official forms are procedural aids, not determinations that facts satisfy statutes or rules.","S022.","High."],["S_NE-P12-C054","No current comprehensive county-specific local-rule, unpublished default-order, or trial-docket universe was reviewed.","S023.","Express gap, not absence finding."]]},{"headers":["Assigned issue","Status","Claim IDs","Exact missing evidence or next action"],"index":8,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Assigned issue","Status","Claim IDs","Exact missing evidence or next action"],["District-court jurisdiction","Answered","C001","Actual complaint and statutory claim category"],["County-court monetary jurisdiction","Answered","C002","Actual amount in controversy"],["Small-claims limit","Answered","C003","Actual principal, interest, costs, and claim characterization"],["Small-claims transaction-party rule","Answered","C004","Actual contract and assignment history"],["Small-claims assigned claim","Answered as prohibited","C004","Nature of transfer/title"],["Small-claims representation","Answered","C005, C007","Actual entity and representative role"],["Regular entity representation","Answered generally","C006","Exact legal entity and counsel status"],["Small-claims hearing response","Answered","C007–C008","Actual hearing notice and any court order"],["Small-claims transfer","Answered","C008","Filing date, fee, and answer order"],["Real party in interest","Answered procedurally","C012–C013","Full assignment proof and admissibility later"],["Nebraska venue","Answered","C009","Residence, transaction, cause-of-action facts"],["FDCPA venue overlay","Answered conditionally","C010","Federal debt-collector and consumer-debt predicates"],["Forum-selection clause","Unresolved/excluded","—","Actual clause and enforceability analysis"],["Federal removal","Answered only as boundary","C011","Complete federal jurisdiction and removal-timing facts"],["Current filing fees","Answered","C014","Fee schedule on actual filing date"],["Fee waiver","Answered procedurally","C015","Sworn finances and court decision"],["Filing commencement","Answered","C016","Actual file stamp"],["180-day service","Answered","C017–C019","Filing date, stay, each defendant’s service record"],["Additional summons/reissue","Answered in part","C016–C020","Praecipe and clerk records; no separate universal expiration found"],["Personal service","Answered","C021","Return and identity of recipient"],["Residence service","Answered","C021","Usual residence and resident recipient facts"],["Certified-mail service","Answered","C022–C023, C046","Send date, receipt, signer, address, actual delivery path"],["Designated delivery","Answered","C021–C023","Approved carrier and signed receipt"],["Process-server eligibility","Answered","C024","Bond and affidavit records"],["Corporation service","Answered","C025","Corporate registry and recipient status"],["Minor service and defense","Answered","C026","Age, residence, guardian appointment"],["Incapacitated person","Answered","C026","Guardian/conservator/institution facts"],["LLC/partnership/government service","Partial","—","Entity-specific statutory provisions"],["Substitute service","Answered procedurally","C027","Diligence record and signed order"],["Publication","Answered","C028–C029","Court order, publication affidavits, address search and mailing"],["Email/text initial service","Answered as invalid absent order","C032","Any §25-517.02 order"],["Out-of-state service","Answered generally","C030","Foreign method and proof"],["Waiver/voluntary appearance","Answered generally","C031, C052","Exact filing and relief requested"],["Regular answer deadline","Answered","C033","Actual service-completion date"],["Answer contents","Answered generally","C035","Complaint and case-specific defenses"],["Rule 12 timing","Answered","C034","Motion type, filing, service, and order"],["Negotiation/dispute effect","Answered as no automatic extension","C036","Actual stipulation or court order"],["Weekend/holiday computation","Answered","C037","Actual holiday/closure order"],["Three mail days","Answered narrowly","C038","Service method for later document"],["E-filing cutoff","Answered","C039","System receipt record and local court timezone"],["System outage","Answered","C040","Provider/clerk error evidence"],["Default notice","Answered","C041","Actual motion and service"],["Default proof","Answered procedurally","C042–C043","Full merits, balance, standing, and evidence later"],["Negotiable instrument surrender","Answered for county default","C043","Actual instrument and status"],["SCRA default","Answered narrowly","C044","Military status and material effect"],["Minor/protected default","Partial","C026, C049","Guardian, capacity record, and specific judgment facts"],["Void judgment","Answered generally","C045–C046","Actual service, appearance, and court record"],["Same-term default relief","Answered","C047","Term, promptness, explanation, proposed defense"],["Six-month relief","Answered","C048","Entry date and motion file date"],["After-term statutory vacatur","Answered","C049","Exact ground, complaint, service, valid defense"],["County/small-claims vacatur","Answered","C050–C051","Entry date and chosen route"],["General-appearance risk","Answered","C052","Exact motion wording"],["Clerical correction","Answered textually","S016","Whether claimed error is clerical or substantive"],["Equity relief","Partial","S016","Independent equitable elements and limitation"],["Full appeal procedure","Excluded","—","Separate appeal component"],["Judgment enforcement/garnishment","Excluded","—","Separate postjudgment component"],["Substantive contract/interest/fees","Excluded","—","Separate merits component"],["Evidence, hearsay, authentication","Excluded except default boundary","C042–C043","Dedicated evidence/standing pass"],["Arbitration","Excluded","—","Dedicated arbitration and stay analysis"],["Local court practices","Unresolved","C054","Current county-specific rules and signed orders"],["Named case deadline or operational approval","Not performed","—","Actual docket, summons, return, orders, and party records"],["Component/state/parent/A066 acceptance","Not granted","—","Remaining registry work and scoped review"]]}],"claims":[{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C001","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C001","Precise assertion":"Nebraska district court has general original jurisdiction except where law provides otherwise.","Source and pinpoint":"S001, §24-302.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C002","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C002","Precise assertion":"Regular county court currently has concurrent civil jurisdiction through $70,000.","Source and pinpoint":"S001, Rule §6-1462.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; current period July 1, 2025–June 30, 2030."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C003","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C003","Precise assertion":"Small Claims Court is currently limited to $7,500 exclusive of interest and costs.","Source and pinpoint":"S002, §25-2802.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C004","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C004","Precise assertion":"Small Claims Court bars assigned claims and requires plaintiff to have been a transaction party.","Source and pinpoint":"S002, §25-2803(4)–(5).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C005","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C005","Precise assertion":"Small-claims entities may use listed employees, members, managers, or partners rather than counsel.","Source and pinpoint":"S002, §25-2803(3).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; small-claims-only exception."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C006","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C006","Precise assertion":"Regular-court artificial entities ordinarily must appear through Nebraska counsel.","Source and pinpoint":"S006, Steinhausen, pp.935–937.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C007","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C007","Precise assertion":"Small-claims defendant ordinarily responds by appearing at hearing, not the regular 30-day answer.","Source and pinpoint":"S002, §§25-2804–25-2806.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C008","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C008","Precise assertion":"Small-claims transfer and counterclaim documents generally must be filed/delivered at least two days before hearing.","Source and pinpoint":"S002, §§25-2804(4), 25-2805.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C009","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C009","Precise assertion":"Regular venue lies where defendant resides, cause arose, or transaction occurred; improper venue is transferred on timely motion.","Source and pinpoint":"S003, §25-403.01.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High. Venue is not subject-matter jurisdiction."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C010","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C010","Precise assertion":"FDCPA venue applies only to qualifying debt collector and consumer-debt suits.","Source and pinpoint":"S003, 15 U.S.C. §1692i.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; federal predicates required."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C011","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C011","Precise assertion":"Ordinary state contract complaint is not removable merely because defendant has a federal defense.","Source and pinpoint":"S004.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High federal boundary; full removal analysis excluded."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C012","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C012","Precise assertion":"Every regular civil action must be in real party’s name, with time allowed for substitution after objection.","Source and pinpoint":"S005, §25-301.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C013","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C013","Precise assertion":"Assignee can sue in own name; collection assignee’s assignment must be written.","Source and pinpoint":"S005, §§25-302, 25-304.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; proof/admissibility later."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C014","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C014","Precise assertion":"Current listed filing totals are $144 district, $62–$82 county, and $58 small claims.","Source and pinpoint":"S007, effective 07/01/2026 schedule.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High for listed schedule; service and other costs separate."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C015","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C015","Precise assertion":"Court may permit qualifying indigent litigant to proceed without fee prepayment.","Source and pinpoint":"S007, §25-2301 and DC 6:7.1.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; court approval required."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C016","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C016","Precise assertion":"Ordinary action commences on complaint filing.","Source and pinpoint":"S008, §§25-501, 25-217(1).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C017","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C017","Precise assertion":"Each defendant must be properly served within 180 days after filing.","Source and pinpoint":"S008, §25-217(2).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C018","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C018","Precise assertion":"Failure to serve by the deadline causes automatic dismissal the following day.","Source and pinpoint":"S008, §25-217(3).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"bounded_material_source_predicate_correction_pending_UNSENT","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance.","coordinator_finding_ids":["S_NE-P12-Q002"]},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C019","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C019","Precise assertion":"Nebraska savings clause does not rescue failure to serve under §25-217.","Source and pinpoint":"S009, §25-201.01(2)(c).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C020","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C020","Precise assertion":"Summons warns of a 30-day written-response deadline and possible judgment.","Source and pinpoint":"S008, §25-503.01.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C021","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C021","Precise assertion":"Personal, residence, certified-mail, and designated-delivery service are authorized ordinary methods.","Source and pinpoint":"S010, §25-505.01.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C022","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C022","Precise assertion":"Certified or designated delivery must be sent within 10 days of summons issuance.","Source and pinpoint":"S010, §25-505.01(1)(c)–(d).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C023","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C023","Precise assertion":"Late filing of proof does not itself invalidate otherwise valid service.","Source and pinpoint":"S010, §25-507.01(3).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C024","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C024","Precise assertion":"Private process server must satisfy age, neutrality, interest, and $15,000 bond requirements.","Source and pinpoint":"S010, §25-507.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"bounded_material_source_predicate_correction_pending_UNSENT","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance.","coordinator_finding_ids":["S_NE-P12-Q004"]},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C025","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C025","Precise assertion":"Corporate service may be made on specified agents or at registered office.","Source and pinpoint":"S011, §25-509.01.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; entity facts required."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C026","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C026","Precise assertion":"Minor under 14 and incapacitated-person service have additional statutory conditions.","Source and pinpoint":"S011, §§25-508.01, 25-309.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"part_text_or_attributed_annotation_support_only_remaining_source_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C027","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C027","Precise assertion":"Substitute service requires motion, affidavit, reasonable-diligence showing, and court order.","Source and pinpoint":"S012, §25-517.02.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C028","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C028","Precise assertion":"Publication requires three successive weekly publications and is not complete until the third.","Source and pinpoint":"S012, §25-519.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"part_text_or_attributed_annotation_support_only_remaining_source_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C029","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C029","Precise assertion":"Publication generally requires mailing known interested parties within five days after first publication.","Source and pinpoint":"S012, §25-520.01.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; statutory exceptions apply."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C030","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C030","Precise assertion":"Out-of-state service can use Nebraska method, place-of-service law, letters rogatory, or court direction.","Source and pinpoint":"S012, §25-540.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C031","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C031","Precise assertion":"Voluntary general appearance is equivalent to service and can waive service objections.","Source and pinpoint":"S011, §25-516.01; S021.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High; exact relief sought matters."},"coordinator_verification_status":"part_text_or_attributed_annotation_support_only_remaining_source_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C032","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C032","Precise assertion":"Ordinary initial service by email/text is not valid absent court-authorized substitute service.","Source and pinpoint":"S012, §25-517.02; S013, §6-1105.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High bounded conclusion."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C033","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C033","Precise assertion":"Regular answer is due 30 days after service or completion of publication.","Source and pinpoint":"S013, §6-1112(a)(1)(A).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C034","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C034","Precise assertion":"Timely Rule 12 motion generally moves answer deadline to 21 days after specified court action or more-definite statement.","Source and pinpoint":"S013, §6-1112(a)(2).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C035","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C035","Precise assertion":"Failure to deny non-damages allegation can admit it; affirmative defenses must be stated.","Source and pinpoint":"S013, §6-1108(b)–(c).","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C036","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C036","Precise assertion":"Negotiation, validation dispute, CRA dispute, or payment offer does not independently extend court deadline.","Source and pinpoint":"S013–S014.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High procedural distinction."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C037","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C037","Precise assertion":"Nebraska excludes trigger day and extends weekend/holiday endpoint.","Source and pinpoint":"S014, §25-2221.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_text_matches_with_source_currentness_and_application_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. 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No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C046","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C046","Precise assertion":"Valid certified-mail service depends on statutory and due-process facts; third-party signature is not categorically valid or invalid.","Source and pinpoint":"S010–S011; S018.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High, fact-dependent."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C047","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C047","Precise assertion":"Prompt same-term motion with meritorious defense ordinarily supports discretionary default relief.","Source and pinpoint":"S019, Applied Underwriters, p.340/index7.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C048","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C048","Precise assertion":"§25-2001(1) motion filed within six months preserves power even if decided later.","Source and pinpoint":"S016; S020, Hawk, p.128/index8.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"part_text_or_attributed_annotation_support_only_remaining_source_holds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C049","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C049","Precise assertion":"After-term §25-2001(4) relief requires complaint, summons, listed ground, valid defense, and ordinarily two-year commencement.","Source and pinpoint":"S016, §§25-2001, 25-2002, 25-2005, 25-2008.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"bounded_material_source_predicate_correction_pending_UNSENT","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. 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No actual court/service/military/defense/merits/parent acceptance."},{"claim_id":"S_NE-P12-C052","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_NE-P12-C052","Precise assertion":"Motion requesting relief beyond jurisdictional objection can create general appearance.","Source and pinpoint":"S021, Herman, pp.57, 60/indices5,8.","Conditions, consequence, confidence":"High."},"coordinator_verification_status":"held_unreopened_rule_case_source_or_application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-29T03:11:21.175166+00:00","coordinator_check_evidence":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_scope_note":"Whole claim read; exact rule/statute/annotation/reuse bounds and failed-access limits apply. 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